Good old Open Source

[NickFitz]

As a suggestion, why not lock TPD for a few days to see how that affects performance.

General

[TheFaQQer]

I concur with your suggestion. As I'll then have >5000 posts, I'd like my title to become Andyw-like

Join us in the Word Association Thread (it's not in LR, so posts count )

[NickFitz]

Join us in the Word Association Thread (it's not in LR, so posts count )

Just think how annoyed AtW would be if it was moved to LR

[TheFaQQer]

I concur with your suggestion. As I'll then have >5000 posts, I'd like my title to become Andyw-like

In terms of custom titles, I'd like to offer up this offering from Tony in 2005 (69th post ever on CUK):

Couldn't we just mark ATW as 'single, no mates and sitting in his bedroom'. A status which will never change!

[DS23]

I'm with you on this.

With DS23 posting away I can never bother reading previous pages anyway...

don't blame you.

[AtW]

Failing that, just ban atw!

I've got plenty of other sockies

sasguru

[NickFitz]

OK, I've bought myself a copy of vBulletin. The idea is to set up an Apache/PHP server and a mySQL server, hopefully configured similarly to the existing forums.CUK setup, then set up one or more additional servers to replay traffic that causes the fail. This means that I can test various options for tuning the database server, hopefully finding some tweaks to the configuration that will address the issues.

If that doesn't work, I may need to figure something else out that the good people of CUK can deploy without having to worry about breakage from future upgrades to the vBulletin software.

It would be handy to have some examples of the kind of traffic that has been causing the problems: we have a very clear timeframe today, so info from the HTTP logs would be useful, as long as it's cleaned of IP addresses and anything else that could be exploited to identify users.

Of course it'll all be more complicated than that, and I can't promise a rapid (or any) solution, but maybe something can be done - well, something other than just shutting down General, which is clearly the root of the problem

Luckily I have a (possibly incomplete) copy of TPD that I can start with

[Board Game Geek]

Wow, this is all so exciting !

We've got the collective geniuses of the crème de la crème IT contracting in the UK, working bravely to save a thread from extinction, before it crashes and burns and takes out the rest of the board with it.

It's like open-heart surgery, on a patient without anaesthetic.

The stakes are high, the die is cast, now the work begins.

Can they pull it off ?

Will the patient survive ?

This is better than X-Factor.

In fact, using that parallel, Admin could be Simon Cowell, and the contestants are the forum users.

Who's suggestion is going to make the grade this week, and who get's booted off ?

The tension is nearly unbearable. The crowd are going wild.

There's everything to play for, and some are going home empty-handed.

Gripping stuff indeed !

[OwlHoot]

As TPD doesn't seem to have caused any resource problems until now, I suggest:

1. Lock TPD (for read only)

2. Start a new thread called TPD2

3. Sorted

[ctdctd]

Will the patient survive ?

This is better than X-Factor.

So:-

NickFitz = Jedward
Churchill + Cailin = Stavros
EO = Susan Boyle

(OK, not all in the X-Factor but near enough!)

Any other suggestions?