Ask PG: What's up with the 2GB limit?
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There's 4GB of physical memory on the server, but for various reasons we only end up with about 2GB of usable heap space.
Rtm just placed an order for a new server, so we should have more memory and a somewhat faster CPU soon.
Rtm just placed an order for a new server, so we should have more memory and a somewhat faster CPU soon.
Well,
Don't you think that if you make pagination for comments of a story, that could help?
For example, if a story has 50 comments, then it should be devided into 2 pages, each page shows 25 comments... and as a result it will use less memory?
For example, if a story has 50 comments, then it should be devided into 2 pages, each page shows 25 comments... and as a result it will use less memory?
That would not use less memory. It's not the html pages that are stored in memory, but the individual comments.
Yes I know that the individual comments are the ones stored in the memory.
But it takes a while to load anyway. like the feature request story... it takes around 11 seconds to load.
Thanks for making it clear to me, I really appreciate it. :)
Thanks for making it clear to me, I really appreciate it. :)
This would presumably give some problems with votes. For instance, a comment in a long thread that starts on page 2 would have a very small chance of making it to page 1 since only a subset of users would look at the second page thus having a chance to vote it up.
This was discussed in pg's original submission on why things had been slow lately. Do we need this separate submission?
I assume he means the machine YC is hosted on has 2gb of memory.
Yes, I forgot to mention the link to his original comment, but now I can't find the thread.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512244
Did you mean that one?
Did you mean that one?
How are you coming up with your 2GB limitation?