That's not been one of our bottlenecks, traditionally. The beginning of this year was pretty hellacious though.
I don;t think I understand. What is our problem then?
Damn it! You know what? I'm sick of this crap. I'm sick of being the guy who eats insects and gets the funny syphilis. As of this moment, it's over. I'm finished being everybody's butt monkey!
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msbelle - Jul 07, 2004 12:08:15 pm PDT #1521 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
§ ita § - Jul 07, 2004 12:10:16 pm PDT #1522 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What is our problem then?
CPU cycles. There's very little we can do to change the amount of bandwidth we use, save a killing spree (which I'm always down for). But the way that our current architecture uses CPU cycles, we need a box to ourselves, because we'd bring everyone else on a shared server to a halt.
msbelle - Jul 07, 2004 12:11:39 pm PDT #1523 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
oh. and what increases CPU cycles?
§ ita § - Jul 07, 2004 12:18:28 pm PDT #1524 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Bugs in the MySQL code, which our code hits.
Also general usage, which is paralleled pretty closely by bandwidth.
Rob - Jul 07, 2004 2:41:37 pm PDT #1525 of 10001
Bugs in the MySQL code, which our code hits.
Which bugs are these?
§ ita § - Jul 07, 2004 2:53:30 pm PDT #1526 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Rob - Jul 07, 2004 3:45:25 pm PDT #1527 of 10001
Those bugs don't cause any extra resource usage. They just cause the count of open connections to be incorrect.
I don't know of any bugs in MySQL that cause the board to consume extra resources.
DavidS - Jul 07, 2004 3:55:09 pm PDT #1528 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Those bugs don't cause any extra resource usage. They just cause the count of open connections to be incorrect.
Well, money is a resource, and all of our shared servers charged us for the miscounts.
Allyson - Jul 07, 2004 4:10:19 pm PDT #1529 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Rob, were you the one working on MARCIE?
§ ita § - Jul 07, 2004 4:18:20 pm PDT #1530 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't know of any bugs in MySQL that cause the board to consume extra resources.
Hmm. Odd. The previous host correlated the incidences of us eating every connection with the CPU usage spiking and bringing server performance to its knees.
You're saying there's something else we should be looking at in our code? Did you notice anything while you were working on the filter?