Topic: Kills page load time.

[Bonk]

I have recently learned that the reason it was requested that I make the unwise move of removeing the throttle on Apache's bandwidth use were misguided reports that people were unable to use the Kills page. (unable to wait 30 seconds? holy crap, how spoiled high speed has made some... I cannnot use most pages for up to minutes sometimes... anyway...)

The Kills page load time is totally unrelated to our bandwidth use, it is very little information to transmit, the page is slow because it is loading the 1.4 MB binary file that is the Dynaverse server database, to get the server name and the server year.

I am going to make considerable modification to the Kills page so that it is no longer universal and does not load the server name and stardate from the game database as people seem to consider a 30 second wait equivalent to "unable to use". So if you count yourself among these attention defecit victims, then do not bother using the flatfile webmap, it is slow to load. Parsing a 1.4 mb binary file recursively in php takes time, and we do not have unlimited cpu resources. So if 30 seconds is too long to wait, please do not bother.

I am about to modify the kills page accordingly.

[Dizzy]

Ur such a wanker. You just got tired of fixing everyone's double kill reports not waiting for it to post. Ur right us SUPER HIGH SPEED cable users dont have respect for mere DIAL UP moped users.

lol

Poor bonk, one day you will get Cable and then you will understand why waiting more than 3 seconds for a web page or pic to come up is too much.

[Bonk]

I used to have cable. The best in North America. I know what it is like. I still know the difference between page generation and page transmission times.

These bogus reports (made over my head) have had serious implications. Unthrottling apache will have had no effect on speeding up the kills page, it will only endanger all other services on our network. It is unfortunate that people made this assumption and complained to Frey without asking me why the kills page was slow.

The Kills page is modified now. The server name is hardcoded and no longer presents the current server stardate for reference. You will also notice a large notice about how not to make a double entry at the top of the page.

I'm pretty pissed off about this.

I am re-enabling the throttle on Apache. If you as a Dynaverse.net member are unable to handle the fact that we have an extremely limited budget and therefore extremely limited bandwidth, then you might as well go pay for high speed services over at Eve, thanks.

http://www.dynaverse.net/webmap_sgo6_ff/kills.php

[Dizzy]

Whelp, its all a stinker if u ask me bonk...