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To: Elmer Phud who wrote (133800)	9/25/2004 2:21:04 AM
From: dougSF30	Respond to of 275872

Hi Elmer! How are you these days?

To: Elmer Phud who wrote (133800)	9/25/2004 3:44:13 PM
From: SI Bob	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 275872

It'll be a while. I'm shooting for sometime in October, but am not promising that. There are a number of items ahead of it and it's not even remotely easy or quick to write and we also have to be sure the existing equipment will be able to handle the rather substantial extra load. To give a rather extreme example, an intermittent slowdown was being noticed on iHub last year and it turned out that one person had several HUNDRED people ignored, and whenever he went to a post or thread, the system utilization would spike and everyone would feel the slowdown. We ended up having to impose limits on the number of people who could be ignored and will do the same here (generous limits, though), but it's really such a high-cost item in terms of equipment utilization that whether you've got a few people with big ignore lists or a lot of active people with relatively small ignore lists, it takes something like twice the horsepower to deal with it. So we have to make sure that we have more than enough horsepower available. We probably do. Oh, and this'll probably make me really popular considering the thread I'm on.... <g> One of the cooler things about the changeover is that instead of the 8 or 9 or however many SUNW machines we were running for the old site, this one's running on exactly 2 machines and those machines are just sitting there idling, despite dealing with quite a bit of traffic. A Dell PE650 3.06Ghz P4 with 1 gig of memory as our webserver and a Dell 4600 with a pair of 2.8Ghz Xeons and 8 gig of memory and a 6-disk 15kRPM RAID5 array as our database server.