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Post by Lady Rachel on Oct 12, 2009 21:56:24 GMT -5
slow the forum down at all? I'm at about 400 messages.. and if it's doing any damage, I'll delete them... scouts honor.
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fire.wolf [006]
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the pack has spoken...
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Post by fire.wolf [006] on Oct 13, 2009 0:14:21 GMT -5
i dont see how they could
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Post by Potter on Oct 13, 2009 11:58:32 GMT -5
maybe if everybody had 400+ messages but i dunno
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Post by A Dream Is A Wish (Old) on Oct 13, 2009 12:31:44 GMT -5
Does it do damage to have that many messages?
Honestly, on other proboards forums I've had messages that ranged in the thousands and it was never a problem.
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Post by Mr. White on Oct 13, 2009 12:54:31 GMT -5
There's a bigger risk of losing them. That's about it
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Post by Aaron on Oct 13, 2009 13:30:34 GMT -5
I only have 13. I'm good!
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Post by Anabelle on Oct 13, 2009 13:48:12 GMT -5
Hey, Ana, you have 2 messages, 0 are new.
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Gemstone
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Post by Gemstone on Oct 13, 2009 14:06:01 GMT -5
pfft. I used to have over 5,000 PMs on a site.  it never slowed it down. don't have any here... |
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Pøĸē
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Post by Pøĸē on Oct 13, 2009 14:22:18 GMT -5
i dont think it would slow it down unless they are being accessed. i assume the number of messages you have is stored somewhere on the server and when you load the page it retrieves this number. The only way it MIGHT make it slower is if you overflow the datatype that it is stored as (i.e. probably around 32000 PMs)
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Post by meldivine on Oct 13, 2009 15:16:40 GMT -5
it might slow down checking messages. that's it
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Post by Potter on Oct 13, 2009 21:17:48 GMT -5
it really depends on the server too
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Post by darckonquest on Oct 13, 2009 21:45:38 GMT -5
Don't worry about it - it's just a simple SQL statement that does a count(1) on your messages... even if you had zero it would do the same query, but it would come back with 0 instead of how many you currently have.
Doesn't really slow anything down (though if everyone has message numbers in the hundreds of thousands, it might be noticeable).
It's actually more dependent on the number of people with messages than it is the number of messages per person.
-darc
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Post by A Dream Is A Wish (Old) on Oct 13, 2009 22:24:38 GMT -5
There's a bigger risk of losing them. That's about it Yea, when you start getting in the higher numbers, it will automatically delete your older PMs. |
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Post by Unebriwen on Oct 14, 2009 7:47:58 GMT -5
^I dont think it deletes them
but does anyone have a message from 1967?
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Post by A Dream Is A Wish (Old) on Oct 14, 2009 23:55:19 GMT -5
^ It has for me on many occasions, but you have you have a whole lot of PMs.
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it never slowed it down.
