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http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum.../000344-4.html

And created into a new topic as suggested by John At Webflyer.
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HA!

On that topic though, a serious question, that may help the general slowness question. That topic has about 60 pages or whatever. And most of them are one word or one line answers. That had me wondering 'why so many pages'?

Has anyone else noticed the number of posting lines on a given 'page' over on Omni, (and I have the same feeling on FT Travel as a whole) is SUBSTANTIALLY less than it is here?

Not sure if I am making my question clear, but it seems a "page" of a thread on FT 'Miles' takes up SEVERAL times as many posts and data as does one page on FT 'Travel'.

i.e. it is my guess if the "Word Assocation" was in Miles Buzz (heaven forbid!) it would run to about a third or quarter as many 'pages' long, altough containing the exact same number of posts. It seems like possibly a simple "tweaking" issue and may help stabilise that Forum, rather than the 60 or so "pages" of data needing to be "read" by computer each time a post is made. Omni has 'crashed' often since that thread was gotten longer it seems?

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~ Glen ~

[This message has been edited by ozstamps (edited 05-13-2002).]

It may just be time to upgrade anotehr server. It's has been about 10 months since the last upgrade and i know that this month has been very heavy with new enrollments - perhaps a record setting month for total new members. John will tell you that last week we discussed briefly another processor to this server and even more memory. We'll probably move ahead with that - you all just keep chatting and talking topically and we'll do the rest. Thanks for the heads up, we need a polite nudge from time to time....

Interesting.

I wonder why there are 25 posts per page on OMNI, and 35 posts per page in MilesBuzz!

Must be a configuration, but pages is just an afterthought in the system, it's posts that count. There's no reason for the system to "index" it, just divide post count by 25 or 35 (or whatever the configured posts per page number is). That's why you sometimes see a discrepancy when post count is out of synch with the real number of posts.

While I'd be happy to accept blame if the WAT really has anything to do with this, but I'm not sure how much lurking you were doing during your absence, but we've been having lots of trouble with OMNI well before this thread which is about 60 days old.

It also wouldn't explain the United problems.

All I know is I'm looking forward to whatever the resolution might be!

[This message has been edited by robb (edited 05-13-2002).]