[cobalt-users] RE: Yabb Forum Issue (alternative)

["Nicolae" <nicolaep@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Message: 9
> From: "T_Rex" <t_rex0001@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 15:07:27 -0300
> Subject: [cobalt-users] YaBB forum issue
> Reply-To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> Hi. I have been useing the YaBB forum. But lately I have being haveing
> trobles: the RAQ 3 "hungs up". Watching around I finally 
> discovered that tha forum, and his main file yabb.pl is a CGI 
> script wich handles the forum, but the forum is consumeing 
> all the RAQ 3 resources (almost 95% of CPU and RAM). This 
> seems to be caused intencionally, but I wonder, Is there any 
> way to configure the server to avoid this yabb.pl to use more 
> than X resources, lets say restrict this CGI to certaing 
> amount of ram for example?

I have used Yabb awhile back and I switched to Ikonboard.  Much 
better and they have utilities to import Yabb settings and 
messages, categories and such.

Yabb uses flat file type of database where Ikonbaord (IB) uses
mySQL database end which is muuuuch faster.  It also lets you
see (when logged in as admin) the time and cycle speed it took
to load the search result, site load and much more.

An example would be:

//
Admin stats 
Execution Time Less than 1 sec. 
CPU Time: 0.19 
No. Queries 8 
Mod Perl? No 
Server load 0.12 
Current UNIX time 1019001069
//

If you were to run many Forums on one server where every-one
would want a Forum than the RAQ might not hold up.  I like
the fact that on Cobalt RAQs mysql is easy to install.  There is a 
pkg out there.  IB is not all that hard to install and you can 
even administer IB via mySQL database.  It's fun.

Ou.. IB is also FREE.

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