[Release v2.0.3] High Server Load: Deny Guests, Allow Members

oi.. basically, if the load is higher than xx, we only want regged users to browse the forums (and be able to let users log in & register)..

http://www.b0fh.cx/vb.html

[rylin]

don't have too much time right now, sadly.. we'll see if i get around to it eventually.. instructions should be possible to follow now as well, as long as you take them with a grain of salt

[sTive]

I would like to use this one too, but it would be for the newest vb Version

[Jawelin]

I would create something similar for 'not-active' (0 posts) users.

What's up about the global.php messing as Firefly told about ?
Could I simply check for $bbuserid[posts] instead of $bbuserid[usergroupid] ??

And, which source is better to recover load levels ?
reading /proc/loadavg or executing and parsing uptime

Thank you very much.

[Jawelin]

Originally posted by FireFly
Just making sure everyone understands that the file changes need to be made to global.php. (forgot that, okidoki)

Chen, what do you mean, exactly ?

Well. I tried to modify global.php myself in a different way, to check, if instant loadavg goes above a warning level (new setting var like $loadlimit) and the logged user has 0-posts, he gets an error_toobusyguest template.

This way I noticed an increased load values, most probably due to a frequent read of /proc/loadavg file I hadn't before, as my $loadlimit was set to 0.

Is it true ? How could I measure the trend ?

Besides, I created a croned (each minute ... '* * * * *') script on the server to get this behavior well written down:

#!/bin/sh
echo `date +%Y-%m-%d%t%T ` - `cat /proc/loadavg` >> ./load.dat
exit

but it seems having added again more load to the server.

I can't get out !!! :ermm: :ermm: :ermm:

Please, need some performance hint !
:laugh:

[HappyPike]

Does this hack work on 2.26?