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Re: News search function temporarily disabled
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lugnet.admin.general
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Mon, 18 Dec 2000 01:08:18 GMT
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Dan Boger wrote:
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> On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 11:21:23PM +0000, Frank Filz wrote:
> > Todd Lehman wrote:
> > > Certain bottlenecks are indeed standing out like sore thumbs. One big one is
> > > the dynamic generation of the /shop/ pages on guide.lugnet.com, and another
> > > is the dynamic generation of member-specific set lists. An even bigger one
> > > is (was) the dynamic generation of member listings (people) such as:
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> > > http://www.lugnet.com/people/members/byfirstname.cgi
> > >
> > > That was taking several seconds of CPU and in some cases 200+ seconds of
> > > transmission time to people on slow modems. I can't do anything about the
> > > transmission time without reducing the page size, but for now I changed it
> > > to cache the content for faster page generation. Holding a large chunk of
> > > data in memory for 200 elapsed-time seconds while generating a page is bad,
> > > even if only a fraction of a CPU second is used.
> >
> > How about breaking down the member pages into pages split by first
> > letter of first or last name, and by country/state? I'm not sure if your
> > "caching" means keeping the indexes by each sort but it would seem this
> > need not be true dynamic content. You don't get that many updates of
> > that content.
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> I think it's more of a problem of having to have the page in memory (all
> 300k of it) while a slow client downloads it. Nothing much to do about
> that except make the page smaller - perhaps move all the FONT FACE entries
> to an all encompassing FONT tag - that should reduce the page size by about
> 10% or so...
Splitting the list into a page for each letter (or perhaps groups of 2-4
letters) or country/state would cut the page size down dramatically was
my idea. Almost every time I've gone to look at the list, I'm either
looking for a specific person, or looking for who are members from a
specific state.
Frank
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