So has the server been more stable?

[Samuraid]

I'm not really sure how attachments in the database works, only that I never liked the idea of it (the only time I'd use it is if I wanted to back up every single part of the forums on a single database file for some kind of reason, but even then you can just download the images via FTP and then zip 'em)

Yeah, having the attachments in the database does make it easier to pack everything up in one nice location. It is a bigger drain on the server though as you get large files sitting in memory while a user downloads them. (as opposed to normal files on the webserver that can be cached in blocks at apache's leisure)

[Loony BoB]

I'll get this done sometime tomorrow during the British working hours (in other words, the EoFF dead zone).

[Baloki]

I'll get this done sometime tomorrow during the British working hours (in other words, the EoFF dead zone).

*Flashes some kind of forgotten memory*

Welcome to the DEAD ZONE on Sci Fi :P

[Dr Unne]

I would take a blind guess and say that moving attachments out of the database will definitely make things go faster, yeah. Filesystem access is definitely going to be faster than a database query, but how many orders of magnitude faster, I couldn't say.

[Cid]

Yeah, the attachments take up 347.60MB of our 553.94MB total database.

[crono_logical]

EDIT: Actually, that was never an admin CP feature, now that I think about it - I think Cid's just disallowed remote linking completely at EoFF. If that's the case, it shouldn't be any trouble.

It's under usergroup permissions - guests are denied downloading attachments, last time I saw. But yeah, if Cid's done that remote linking block thing, I guess most of the problem is gone except for people using EoFF to host their EoFF sigs

[escobert]

It gets slow for me every once in a whiloe when I try to post but nothing too baad.

[Leeza]

Lots and lots of lag all morning in posting and browsing.

[Dr Unne]

Ditto that.

[Loony BoB]

I'm still waiting for Cid to send me some server information so I can go ahead with the attachment storage change. I need the root directory path and it looks like the various common ones didn't work, so we'll have to wait until Cid replies to my PM. If it's still slow after that, I'm not too sure on exactly where we should look to next, but I'm sure we'll figure it out.

[Baloki]

I keep getting the following message in the mornings

This is Loony BoB your overlord, sup biatchies, now why you visiting here hommies. I'm currently doing some attachment moving, uh huh baby back in a min, so clear off and try again in a few mins, shouldn't take too long

I'm suspicious of him becoming a gangster during file movements...

[Del Murder]

Man, why don't you and BoB just get married already and be done with it.

[Baloki]

Man, why don't you and BoB just get married already and be done with it.

I did prepose but he turned me down

[eestlinc]

I guess he has standards after all.

[Baloki]

I guess he has standards after all.

*Hates you*