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I noticed soemthing kinda near or wierd. When you change your signature on this form it is retroactive, I changed it a bunch of times and went and checked my older posts and they had the new signature.
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Yeah, I'm guessing the user manager is a MySQL database, which is queried every time a thread is viewed. So, when you change something, it is "retroactive" in the sense that the old posts just show whatever the profile is in the database. Saves a ton of space, but probably requires quite a powerful machine to run the SQL database what with so many posts every day.
Originally posted by moses Yeah, I'm guessing the user manager is a MySQL database, which is queried every time a thread is viewed. So, when you change something, it is "retroactive" in the sense that the old posts just show whatever the profile is in the database. Saves a ton of space, but probably requires quite a powerful machine to run the SQL database what with so many posts every day.
Until the new machine that was donated, I do believe this site was running on a dual Pentium Pro 180mhz... can't remember exactly, but yes, the new server is much more powerful.
Actually pulling your sig out of the database so it has the newest one does not take any more cpu than keeping the old and as said before it takes less space.
The stats page would be neat to see, I would like to know how big the database for this site is :-)
Text takes up a lot of space these days. Lots of posts.
; )
But yeah, it shouldn't require much more CPU power. Also, sometimes when googling you hit a LQ archive - it has the posts, but it does not have all the fancy stuff about the users (the stuff on the left) and it does not have sigs.
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