So how's ColdFusion5, Matt? October 3, 2001 10:13 AM   Subscribe

So how's ColdFusion5, Matt? Curious because the last couple of days have been very slow, and I'm getting lots of timeouts.
Or is it that you've been in there tweaking stuff? Has there been another huge surge in traffic?
posted by Su to Uptime at 10:13 AM (5 comments total)

The box needs more ram, and I need to go through and tweak all my db queries to make them more efficient. I think the problem now is the database server gobbling up resources.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 10:17 AM on October 3, 2001


i almost wonder if we should not strip down some of the features of metafilter -- like sorting according to most comments, or whatever. or, if possible, if we could distribute some of that to the downloading computer rather than use the resources on the database server. (i wonder if XML could somehow be utilized for that...?)
posted by moz at 11:44 AM on October 3, 2001


A thought that maybe belongs in feature requests:

I know whenever I come to MeFi, the first thing I see is the front page sorted by Date. Then I immediately sort it to "Most Comments," to see what's hot. That's two queries. Is it at all possible to immediately go to a "view" we've set in our preferences? That might eliminate some of these extra queries.

I suppose we could all just bookmark index.cfm?sortby=mostcomments (or whatever) to do our part....
posted by jpoulos at 7:08 PM on October 3, 2001


Is it at all possible to immediately go to a "view" we've set in our preferences?

Yes, and in fact, MetaFilter already does this using a browser cookie.
posted by kindall at 2:22 PM on October 4, 2001

if we could distribute some of that to the downloading computer rather than use the resources on the database server. (i wonder if XML could somehow be utilized for that...?)
Give each client more data than they need so they can filter and reduce that to their needs?

My modem wishes you a life of pain and misery!
posted by holloway at 6:08 PM on October 6, 2001



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