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[Sally]

There's been a lot of complaints from people at the speed of the board.
For several months now after a reboot the BB is super-fast and as time goes by - hours and days -- it slows down.
It's suspected that the links to different pages in multipage threads could be the culprit.
For example, FP has been trying to post a 150 lined post around 13Kb today with no luck.
Now, these can either be removed and see if things speed up (If it isn't they can be put back), or kept.

So, to remove or not to remove- that is the question.

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[Alfisti]

weird... i've had no problems at all with the BB speed.

My only suggestion would be to put a BB link on the bottom of each news item... there seems to be a link to everything else there. I don't think i am the only one that checks out the news first then jumps on the board.

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[Rainstorm]

Alfisti,

You blind?

There is a link to the Bulletin Board at the bottom of every news story. It looks like this:

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p.s.

I have no problem with the BB speed either

[FordPrefect]

Speed seems fine, i'd just like to do a large post , still if that's not available to me then it's going to have to become a series.

I'VE FOUND the PROBLEM....

there is a tiny black mark near the top of the page, when you are posting it's located bteween the 'F' and the 'o' in Forum and halfway up to the top of the page.

same location on the other pages also.. probably a bug planted by A.S.S., more on that later

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[Sally]

<Mr Salty Mode>
FP has a dirty monitor
</Mr Salty Mode>

[FordPrefect]

Nooooooooooooooo
it scrolls right along with the page, it's NOT my monitor

FP

[PeaQ]

yepp, I can se it to, and my screen is shining and clean...

[PeaQ]

But it seems as it is only like that in the redaders' comment section...

[FordPrefect]

Sally,
I just sent you a screen capture

FP

[Sally]

Yeah I see it

How on earth will a little speck have anything to do with posting problems?!

For a start- they're in differnt files...

[Uncle Davy]

Home 'puter: slow

Work 'puter: fast

My home unit is a hand-me-down from my brother, the IT pro...it may have vacuum tubes, or even worse, be steam-powered.

[Slick]

I don't seem to be having any problems with the speed of the BB but to clear out come of the dead wood as it were would be a good Idea

[Rainstorm]

err.... what that English, Slick? I couldn't understand a word

[PeaQ]

you know, slicks and rainstorms just don't goes together...

[FordPrefect]

Sally, I know,
I just had to show you that it WAS there

Slick, are we talking posts or people?

just another normal Saturday night

FP

[theMot]

I would like a Coffee machine put in the paddock club.

[Alfisti]

and tim tams while your at it

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[Andy]

First off - I'm with Mot on the Coffee machine thing!

Secondly - Sally it IS slow, sometimes but not all the time. I have to admit though, for me anyways, when AtlasF1 is slow, it is PAINFULLY slow! Other times it is fine.

Could I be permitted to make a suggestion here?? Eliminate the actual posting of images within a thread. This really slows everthing down and the same can be achieved by simply putting the link to the image on your post. This way we can go and look at any images which 'sound' appealing! Meanwhile we are not waiting forever to see people's Desk Tops because one door-knob posted theirs 3 times!!

Just a thought Sally...

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[FordPrefect]

"We cannot process your posting, because you have exceeded the maximum number of images allowed per post. The current maximum is 8."

I just got this message when I attempted to post, I have zero images in it, however I do have a numbered list, up to 10 and bold text all over it, any ideas?

sometime later.......
I went back, blew away the [list=1] and did a manual list, this time it wouldn't post, it's not very long but it does have a lot of individual bold formatting in it

and Sally you saw my FAQ posts, any Idea why that couln't load as ONE topic?

I'm beginning to think it may be the amount of formatting I do. Then again we have just had a race, would high activity on 'Reader's Comments' impact on the'Paddock' ??

just out of curiosity I'm going to try my last post with NO formatting and see what happens

------------later
no luck, keep getting 'timed out' error

back to what Andy said, maybe images should be be limited to thumbnails, everything would load faster then.

FP




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[Sally]

For some obscure reason, Infopop decieded to put a limit on the amount of smilies per post. And the limit is 8.

I've emailed the fix to bira, and she'll be fixing it soon.

[Sally]

Originally posted by Andy:
First off - I'm with Mot on the Coffee machine thing!

Secondly - Sally it IS slow, sometimes but not all the time. I have to admit though, for me anyways, when AtlasF1 is slow, it is PAINFULLY slow! Other times it is fine.

Could I be permitted to make a suggestion here?? Eliminate the actual posting of images within a thread. This really slows everthing down and the same can be achieved by simply putting the link to the image on your post. This way we can go and look at any images which 'sound' appealing! Meanwhile we are not waiting forever to see people's Desk Tops because one door-knob posted theirs 3 times!!

Just a thought Sally...

It's leaking resources, not over image posting problems.

And you could not look at the thread if it doesn't take your interest either ;)

[Sally]

testing more smilies-

[FordPrefect]

Sally is right ...again

my post had 9 :)'s in it

however that damn speck is still there..

FP

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[selena]

I think that things could be speeded up and updated faster on the general list of topics. Otherwise everything is just fine as it is.

[Andy]

Originally posted by Sally:
It's leaking resources, not over image posting problems.

And you could not look at the thread if it doesn't take your interest either

Sally, pardon my ignorance but what do you mean by leaking resources??

Also, sometimes a thread does look interesting but I end up giving up because it has so many images that it just takes too long to load. That was the point I was trying to make.

[Slick]

What I mean't to say was Some of the dead wood as in posts which have had no replies for a period of time i.e. 3 weeks and anything else older than say 5 weeks this could all be put in archive to be accessed from another page

then again I may be talking aload of crap

[Sally]

Ford, you make that sound like a bad thing

Andy, not to sure how to explain, but here goes.
Well, when the server reboots the BB is fast, but as time goes by it slows down and then speeds up up server reboot and so on.
So, I was trying to help find the problem when I came across this in the documentation for the little page numbers

A word of warning to those with busy boards: The hack performs extra calculations on EVERY single row of the threadfile that is being processed by forumdisplay.cgi (though it only acts on threads that exceed the post limit). This may or may not affect the performance of your UBB if you have high traffic.

This may or may not as I've said be affecting to board, but it sounds like the culprit

But, everyone hasn't noticed any probmlems.

And, about the desktops, just wait and see...

Slick- Topic's which are untouched for 4 months get pruned I *think*, the oldest topic I can find in this forum is from 03/02/99.

[Andy]

O.K. Sally but what "Exceeds the post limit"?? Is there any way to boost the post limit up? How is the post limit affected by images vs. text??

What's going to happen with the 'Desk Tops'?? You have me really worried now!

[Sally]

The smilies problem has been fixed, so you can post as many smilies as you want

And I'll put all the desktop's on a page for you Andy, with text links so you don;t have to look at one 3 times

[FordPrefect]

the speck is gone..............

[tallguy]

I had a nightmare with IE 5.5 beta

removed it and reinstalled IE5 and speed is fast again !!

[FordPrefect]

I've been running it at work with no problems, well except for our sys. people refusing to support anything on my machine.

that's a blessing anyway

[Andy]

Sally - You're such a sweet-heart! !

[smarty]

Keep the useful small culprits please

[The Sleeper]

Sally, desktops? Do Atlas F1 desktop themes exist? I'd love that!

[Mr. Salty]

Originally posted by Sally:
<Mr Salty Mode>
FP has a dirty monitor
</Mr Salty Mode>

Sally,

Just because I rarely frequent this dusty old part of Atlas doesn't mean I NEVER do. We all know you're a slob.