An Idea! for Korn to speed up BCF

[Itchy]

How about the screen whereby it tells you that your post has been sucessfully added is removed completely saving an entire page having to be generated and an extra process on the server?

I mean I always click past it anyway and I doubt many people linger and watch it.
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[Clanger]

Maybe he'll read this today...like now...whilst he's logged on!!!

Actually, Itchy...that page rarely works for me anyway, that's when I get either a critical error and booted out, or I get a double post message.

I also don't see, when I return to the main forum that, my post has catapulted said thread to the top...it will sit showing the previous poster in the same position...until I click away and then come back!!!
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[Kickstart]

Hi

I suspect that page is an attempt to prevent double posts. Goes there then redirects to the thread page so that if someone reloads the page of the thread it doesn't resubmit the form for their post.

Korn added some caching to the index pages so they didn't need to be regenerated all the time. Suspect that is why the index doesn't always change immediately when you submit a post.

All the best

Keith
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[G]

It's not really adding much complexity - apart from the basic base html, you're not really going to save any database stuff. As mentioned, pretty sure it's also there to help prevent double posts.

[Alexio]

Also, that's just the way phpbb works
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[Kickstart]

[G]

I don't know how it works, but I'd have thought that stuff would be a lot more efficient than getting posts and other user data back.

[Alexio]

[Kickstart]

Hi

Not sure if Korn has changed it, but a normal phpbb install goes to a fair amount of effort to use generic sql passed to a routine to access the database. The need to keep things generic will stop the use of any clever sql.

While it might take 25 queries to show the success screen, that will include all the queries used in saving the post.

Edit - to frighten yourself have a look at your profile (ie, the one get by clicking your name, not the link at the top of the page). Quick glance and that took 418 queries

All the best

Keith
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[Itchy]

[Korn]

Like Keith's already said those intermediate pages don't generate much in the way of load... most of the basic common queries (loading the config data out of the DB, etc) are mostly served from memcached these days, instead of actually hitting the MySQL DB.

One side-effect of the server move in Feb is that BCF is growing again, up by some 25% in terms of page views since the start of the year... which is cool, but is ultimately going to lead to even more kit being needed soon.
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[Alexio]

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I still say ban traffic from India and Pakistan.

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[Korn]

[Clanger]

I honestly don't know why I re-visit these forum feedback posts after I've written something...I don't understand a thing you lot are saying...you may as well be talking gobbledegook. I wonder if this is what dyslexic people feel like when looking at plain old English text.
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