[thesite] blockfactor revisted

[.jeff]

dan,

oy, you and i are hammering people's inboxes tonight.  wanna go get a drink
later?

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> From: Daniel J. Cody
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> >>lets not blame problems of performance on us though.
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> > where did i say i was blaming them on us.  i'm just
> > trying to explore the issues to try to find some
> > explanations to the things we're seeing.  that's all.
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> exactly. we can code our CMS perfectly. the fact is,
> the performance issues aren't our fault. they're MM's
> fault(4 pages/sec? oy.)
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actually, our cms has a lot of inefficiencies currently -- things that i've
only found out *since* building v2.0.  it's far from being perfect.  4
pages/sec are our fault until we've combed the code for the problem areas.

speaking of that, as you see reads of session variables (session.user.priv,
for example), change them to have app. prepended to them
(app.session.user.priv, for example).  that way we don't have to lock to
read them since i'm doing a lock once and duplicating the session scope out
to a structure without locking issues.

writes to session variables are a different issue.  we'll need to lock those
writes and also write to the matching app. copy.

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> > or perhaps because alot of people can't see past the
> > price tag and have zero ability to compare the costs
> > long term?
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> what are the long term costs jeff?
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i can go into a long diatribe about my thoughts on the open source vs.
commercial software situation.  i don't think this is really the place for
it.

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> i get native oracle connectivity free.
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if you've ponied up the money for oracle how much difference would another
couple grand honestly make?  i'm not saying it's right, just how i see it.

.jeff

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