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  1. #11

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    I'll refund the cost of your membership, in the form a beer tommorrow.


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    That's fine, but remember I joined 10 times!


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    (remind me to get my lawyer involved in this conversation...)


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    Quote Originally Posted by KnowItAll:
    Nika, it is a performance thing for sure.

    Every post that is displayed adds to the number of SQL queries and the memory that is taken up on the server processes ( php / caches ).

    To keep both SQL query and memory usage predicable on a per page basis we've kept the number of posts frozen at 8 per page.

    We serve a total of 200-300K dynamically generated pages per day across our main server, so it is fairly important to keep things as stable as possible.

    PDLM : there are variances, for now I'd rather stick to the average to predict resource use.

    The variable amount of posts per page was used a couple of times to overload the server and when it was enabled, few (less than 10) people used it.
    Hey, that's pretty interesting.










    Not!
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    When you fail to convince, try and confuse. Hopefully I've done both.. convinced a few and confused the rest and this question does not come up again.


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    Sorry for openings Pandora's box

    Quote Originally Posted by KnowItAll:
    When you fail to convince, try and confuse. Hopefully I've done both.. convinced a few and confused the rest and this question does not come up again.