Busiest VB?

[bigbigsavings]

Our current stats:

Currently Active Users:
There are currently 161 member(s) and 656 guest(s) on the boards.

Is this pretty much as big as they get?

Alex

[George L]

probably, but forums.gameplay.com removed the active user status so not sure if they are the biggest ?

i know paintballcity, fanforum when they were on vB moved back to UBB, are pretty big.

[Freddie Bingham]

I think in addition to moving to 1.1.4 you should also remove the active users and the code that updates the session table as it doesn't have much use if 200 names are on the list.

[bigbigsavings]

freddie,

Our index.php3 page is what takes the longest to load on the site. How can i remove the code that updates the session table? I'd like the forums to show HOW many people are online, but not necessarily the actual list of people.

[Freddie Bingham]

Well it is an option in the control panel. Turning it off will drop the list of users along with the numbers online though. Showing the list is no big deal, it is just having the loggedins on causes the session table to be updated for every user on every page they visit. That was what I was suggesting you disable which also means you lose the count of users online.

[VirtueTech]

Freddie,

Does showing the list of logged in users take alot of system resources...or not really.

Also...if I use the variable $loggedinusers how do I switch it to show the list of users to a summary of the logged in users?

Thanks.

P.S. At top peak hours we get around 340 concurrent users and the server handles well. Our server is:

• Slackware Linux
• Dual PIII 900's
• 5 36.4 IBM Ultra 2 SCSI Drives
• RAID 5
• 1.5 GB of 100 mhz SDRAM

[Zecherieh]

All I know is that I checked out the bigbigsavings forum - five hours later now I have more junk on its a way to me than I could possibly know what to do with.

Dang I hate going to sites where I can find free stuff - I cant turn down anything free.

[George L]

Originally posted by Zecherieh
All I know is that I checked out the bigbigsavings forum - five hours later now I have more junk on its a way to me than I could possibly know what to do with.

Dang I hate going to sites where I can find free stuff - I cant turn down anything free.

now that's word of mouth advertising that no one can resist

*** heads on off to bigsavings site ***

[JimF]

Originally posted by VirtueTech
At top peak hours we get around 340 concurrent users and the server handles well. Our server is:

• Slackware Linux
• Dual PIII 900's
• 5 36.4 IBM Ultra 2 SCSI Drives
• RAID 5
• 1.5 GB of 100 mhz SDRAM

Yeah, I think NASA is using a similar setup on the space station .

-JIM

[bigbigsavings]

I have ordered yet another server upgrade, so we can handle the 800+ online users. After the upgrade we wil be running on

Web Servers:
2 Load balanced Dual p3-700's with 512 megs of ram each.

Database server:

Quad 450Mhz Sun E420R with 2 gigs of ram, 2 18GIG SCSI HD's RAID1

I think that should be enough, lol.

Alex

[George L]

Originally posted by bigbigsavings
I have ordered yet another server upgrade, so we can handle the 800+ online users. After the upgrade we wil be running on

Web Servers:
2 Load balanced Dual p3-700's with 512 megs of ram each.

Database server:

Quad 450Mhz Sun E420R with 2 gigs of ram, 2 18GIG SCSI HD's RAID1

I think that should be enough, lol.

Alex

my GOD !!! - how much does all that set you back each month how's the load average looking on that setup

[Troy Roberts]

bigbig - how many page views are you getting per month? What do you think is the minimum setup that would handle your load?

[Freddie Bingham]

Originally posted by JimF

Originally posted by VirtueTech
At top peak hours we get around 340 concurrent users and the server handles well. Our server is:

• Slackware Linux
• Dual PIII 900's
• 5 36.4 IBM Ultra 2 SCSI Drives
• RAID 5
• 1.5 GB of 100 mhz SDRAM

Yeah, I think NASA is using a similar setup on the space station .

-JIM

Last I saw, the Space Shuttle used no intel CPU's greater than a 386 - it takes them ALONG time to certify a cpu for use in space.

[bigbigsavings]

Troy,

Right now we're doing about 240,000 page views per day, and our current set up is barely handling it. The current database server (dual p3-700 with 1 gig of ram) with about 600 people online starts hitting loads of 10+ and the board becomes very slow.

Alex

[chrispadfield]

well it is certainly not here (busy) with only 2 members online at the moment. lowerst i have ever seen.