ok, basukly i was wondering why this website is so slow…i figure its because of the amount of people on it, but how many people are actually here?..hundreds, thousands, millions?
no its not just my connection, i’ve regularly read this message board on three different connections and all are slow
p.s. didn’t mean all 3 connections were slow, but that this website is slow on all 3 connections
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Looking at the “Who’s Online” list (which is accessible only to the staff), I see 315 registered users and 184 guests currently browsing the boards.
Only 300~?
When was the greatest amount people online at any time, and how many was it?
Is 300 a low or high number?
Thanks.
idol and asia . I think I’m correct in that it’s not how many people are on line at a given moment. Rather it’s a function of how many people are *doing a search(and how extensive the search is) that bogs down the boards.
This does NOT include searching the archive of Cecil’s and the Staff’s columns from the home page.
If there were no search engine for the SDMB, then it could probably handle more people than ever use it at its peak. It’s the search engine.
If Jerry Davis or Xash can verify what I said, I’d feel more comfortable having them tell youi.’
I’m just going on past threads about the subject and some other stuff.
jdavis probably has more info on this than anyone else… but, yes, as samclem says, the search function is a major resource hogger. Limit your searches to the minimum. Limit the search criteria to the minimum.
315+184 users online at a time is not the most there have been. I’ve seen a total of 700 plus in my short stay here.
Also, there have been major upgrades in the past and, each time, the demand was met within a few months. So, just upgrading hardware or bandwidth is not a solution.
I must tell you, though, that it’s a whole lot faster now than it has been in the past.
The Slashdot effect we experienced during the run of that Lord of the Rings thread. I remember an instance of more than 1200 users (guests and members) online. But what samclem is correct. Just being here viewing static content isn’t the real problem. It’s the number of simultaneous queries that is critical.
No, that’s 500. Gotta count guests, too. Additionally, I have something in a recent staff e-mail that’s marginally on this topic that I’ll share. In the past 30 days, we’ve logged posts from about 7400 unique user names. That’s about 20% of the total registered.
During our /.'ing with the Tolkien thread we experienced 1626 users online simultaneously on 01-07-2003 at 11:35 AM. That’s the highest usage I have seen.
Jerry
What does the Slashdot effect (/.'ing) mean?
Julie
The thread was mentioned on the Slashdot site, slashdot.org. Although it’s not an LOTR site, many users are LOTR enthusiasts, and they spread it to other sites as well. That also made it the most-viewed thread on our site.
What thread is this? Could someone provide a link? I’d like to see why Slashdot found it so special.
This one. Longest thread in all of CS, IIRC.
The slashdot effect is generally known as a time when people come to a site en masse from a link posted at a very popular website and overwhelm the server at the target site, often causing the poor thing to crash.
Here’s the slashdot discussion of our LOTR thread - it itself has 350 posts.