Board slowdowns, so threads locked!

[AustinChief]

Just a heads up. MEGA threads slow the board down immensely. I just closed a few that were causing issues. So if anyone wants to, they need to be created as new threads. I will likely be closing down ANY thread that gets in the 3000+ post range as we get closer to the season so if you see a thread that is getting too big, start a new one and give me or a mod a shout to close the old one.

[cmh6476]

Any chance this thread gets to 3k?

[AustinChief]

Originally Posted by cmh6476

Any chance this thread gets to 3k?

hahaha that would be awesome to have to lock the thread about locking threads

[Mr. Laz]

So i was right, mega threads do really suck!!

[Bowser]

Originally Posted by AustinChief

hahaha that would be awesome to have to lock the thread about locking threads

[Hydrae]

Originally Posted by AustinChief

hahaha that would be awesome to have to lock the thread about locking threads

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[cmh6476]

Bump

[Bugeater]

Now I have to put all those shitty threads on ignore again!

[Mav]

Originally Posted by Hog Farmer

If we'd drafted Johnny Football every thread would have 3000 posts.

I purposely don't go to browns boards right now so I don't have to read about that twerp. Knock it off ass hole!

[Bowser]

So BRC starts a new Cardinals thread even though he had 700 posts to go, and it wasn't even locked? What a suck ass!

[cmh6476]

so why does cyberspace not like big threads?

[SLAG]

Originally Posted by cmh6476

so why does cyberspace not like big threads?

While I am not involved with the hosting of Chiefsplanet, my guess would be this:

Database query time is huge on huge threads.
Even with beefy databases - replicated servers we're talking about huge amounts of data being requested or pulled from cache each time someone opens a mega thread.

These big queries can start to back up and slow down everything else.

Hope this makes sense

[TIED5573]

Come on, boys!

Only 2974 posts to go!

You can do eet!

[beach tribe]

Originally Posted by htismaqe

You can put it all in the "Bye Tyler Bray" thread here in a couple of weeks.

I thought you were smarter than this.

[DaFace]

Originally Posted by SLAG

While I am not involved with the hosting of Chiefsplanet, my guess would be this:

Database query time is huge on huge threads.
Even with beefy databases - replicated servers we're talking about huge amounts of data being requested or pulled from cache each time someone opens a mega thread.

These big queries can start to back up and slow down everything else.

Hope this makes sense

Yeah, that's the gist of it. When you open a thread, it has to parse through the ID's of all posts in the thread first, then hone in on the page you want to be on. Because of that, the bigger a thread gets, the more of a problem it is. In addition, a big thread that only gets opened now and then isn't a big deal, but a big thread that is really active can cause major slowdowns (since it's constantly having to re-parse the thread).

I'm on a giant hockey forum that runs on vBulletin (HFBoards), and they actually lock threads at 1k posts. That would be insane here, but it shows that even much bigger boards have the same issues we do.

[BlackHelicopters]

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