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Improving HN's performance. Voting is horribly expensive. That wasn't a problem originally but it's starting to become one now that there are so many users.

• dzlobin 17y ago
  how many users are we up to?
  • pg 17y ago
    11492 accounts, many of them inactive of course. There are more users than that, because many users lurk for a while before creating accounts. We now get around 45k unique visitors on weekdays.
    • dzlobin 17y ago
      awesome, out of curiosity, what kind of server is HN running on? edit: guy below me who maxed out the thread, server not language
      • deleted 17y ago
        [deleted]
      • idoh 17y ago
        It's a server written in arc.
      • jaydub 17y ago
        as of ~a year ago: "3.0 GHz Core whatever, 12 GB RAM, 64-bit FreeBSD 7.1" see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=516118 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=516118
        • pg 17y ago
          It's still that one. We were starting to spend too much time gcing once everything got lazily loaded, but a few days ago I started throwing stuff out of memory and now it looks like we've got performance back into the tolerable range. http://hnstatus.net/ http://hnstatus.net/
          • rms 17y ago
            One day, I will be able to load my saved items...
            • Herring 17y ago
              Wow, no kidding. And I'm certain items are missing from the beginning of the list. I know they're still saved somewhere, because I can't upmod those articles.
• Timothee 17y ago
  I feel like upvoting your comment because that sounds interesting and concerning everyone here, but I don't want to be part of the problem!
  • cubicle67 17y ago
    You're not. You're helping him test his improvements