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Originally posted by fluffy_lobster
i wasn't suggesting deleting the attachments table, just temporarily disabling showing/uploading attachments, as handling large files like that must be pretty hard on the server compared to the size of posts. if it doesn't account for much load though, that's fair enough
It probably takes more load for you to be viewing this page than actually downloading or uploading an attachment
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Originally posted by Sunshine
Still disabling stuff like that or removing avatars or signatures will not help increase the serverload, all it will do is make it load up faster on userend. The prob lies in the ammount of ppl that are on the forum at the same time. The only solution is to increase that limit (Serverhost side).
You cant really increase the limit to more than it is already set. The server is not designed to handle high loads and this is why this limit is set, to prevent server failures. Server loads are calculated so that if the load on a crappy server (eg 233mhz) is 1.17, on a higher scale server (say 2.3ghz) the load is still 1.17. Its a caluclation of the running processes and the drain these processes place on the CPU.
Its hard to explain why these things dont place a high load on CPU, but they dont as internal testing (stress testing) has shown me..
