Yup, <@ADDROWS> sucks!

Recently one of our servers was slowing down to a snail's pace. The CPU
would suddenly jump to 100% for a few minutes. We thought it was bad
code, like an endless loop or something in one of the applications. We
moved the applications, one at a time, to another server and found the
culprit.

I opened up the application and voila! There were numerous ADDROWS
commands being run to build a list of ad banners on the page -- on every
load! We're going to have to rewrite the thing.

We've pretty well had to ban use of <@ADDROWS> in the department. I have
no idea why it's so slow -- like it's running it from disk, rather then
from RAM -- it's THAT slow. Hopefuly this is something that's fixed in
V5 (hint, hint).

- James.


-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Nathan Hitchcock
Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 2:49 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk
Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: Is Witango slow at doing nasty math? - No,
it's <@ADDROWS>


You are indeed correct about the <@ADDROWS> tag being the culprit.
Removing it resulted in a previous 12 second calc loop for 204 matches
taking only 1 second!  Apperently, Witango can do trigonomic math faster
than the average 11th grader. :)

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