What rolls down T3s, boosts connect fees, and makes your throughput drag? Makes it tough to hack, won't get off your back, it's lag lag lag!
Okay so we've all noticed some lag, fine, whatever. On a seperate note some of us have noticed that some people, those who should know better (me too, me too!), occasionally reply to nodes without okaying them. I know one reason why I use the consider/edit nodelet less than I might (including for okay), is that it is a seperate form and requires an additional submission. So what if it were (optionally?) inlined in the page body as a part of the normal form? This way one could okay and vote or okay and reply at the same time.

Another thing to consider is cleaning up page markup a bit. I was able to eliminate 1.6k of 13.2k by removing unnecessary whitespace. I'm sure there are other things that could be tidied up as well, though probably for more modest gains. And some of it could be done automagically e.g. Apache::Clean. There is also the possibility of sending content encoded e.g. Apache::Compress, to clients that can receive it.

Yes, from our end we cannot tell if the lag is due to bandwidth or other forms of throughput issues (disk/CPU), so much of this is a shot in the dark. I do realize that all but the first proposal costs CPU to gain bandwidth (and the associated, probably lesser, CPU gain). Unless the server is already pegged it's probaby woth some experimentation though.

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2002-02-18 Corion : chop; chop;

In reply to Hey rocky, watch me pull time out of my hat... by belg4mit

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