To clean up the TD&Q and the GFC sections, I have created Archives which hold threads that have been inactive for over 6 months. These archives are still fully searchable, but read-only. This will hopefully solve the problems I was experiencing with these sections sometimes becoming unresponsive.
Somewhere in July I will upgrade my server and probably will be moving these archived threads back to their original sections to see if the current problems had anything to do with speed and/or memory of my current server.
Monkeyman
MAY 03, 09:41 AM
Good idea, Cliff! Hopefully this will speed things up considerably. I'll bet there are tons of dusty threads.
Gokart
MAY 05, 06:24 AM
Cliff, when your server gets upgraded will we be able to search a topic on all categories again? That option is no longer there. You can only do a search one category at a time when before there was a "search all open topics and archives".
Cliff Pennock
MAY 05, 12:12 PM
The reason I have temporarily disabled that feature is because what most people don't realize is that you start a search through 400Mb of messages. This can take a few minutes and I noticed that a lot of people thought the server didn't respond and restarted the search. This results in a number of identical search scripts running simultaneously - hogging the server tremendously. The new server should be around ten times faster. I will enable this feature as soon as the new server is installed (or if enough people request to switch it on again on the old server).
