[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Nam

Andrew, another quick question about performance. Would using no hided link is faster than using enable hided link (on the same server)? MySQL crashed twice yesterday, not sure what's the reason, but it was a peak time when multiple connections were connected to multiple files on the server.

Almost right. If you completely turn off LDM's link protection, by setting force_redirect to 2, then the load on your server will be reduced. However, the amount it is reduced will depend on the nature of your site.

- If you are serving copies of files that are hosted on your site, then your server still has to deliver them somehow. Provided you set up these entries using local file names (i.e. /dir1/file rather than http: // yoursite /dir1/fil), then it doesn't make that much difference whether the file is processed via LDM or directly by the webserver.

- If the entries are downloads and you set them up as full urls, even if they are on the same server, then there is a high overhead in passing them through LDM.

- The sql performance is another matter. I would be rather suprised if LDM makes a major difference, or if setting force_redirect to 2 changed matters.