[wp-hackers] Maximum # of users

[Robin Adrianse]

Is there any anti-spam mechanism on that front? I don't recall any...

On 2/3/07, Dr. Mike Wendell <theapparatus at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Gotta remember spammer accounts as well though.  I made my main blog
> Account required for Comment posting and get about a hundred new
> account generated every day. :(
>
> -drmike
>
> On 2/3/07, Robin Adrianse <shorty114 at shorty114.net> wrote:
> > ID's aren't reused. They're AUTO_INCREMENT, which means that once an ID
> is
> > used, it skips ahead. That's why post ID's and etc jump all around if
> you
> > delete a post, etc.
> >
> > If the 2 billion mark is really a problem, you may be able to switch
> some
> > stuff in the database around (column types). But 2 billion is about 1/3
> of
> > the world's population... I don't think WP.com is even going to hit that
> > very soon. Keep in mind that # of blogs != # of users. A lot of users
> have
> > more than one blog attached to their username.
> >
> > On 2/2/07, Angsuman Chakraborty <angsuman at taragana.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I  really don't think 2 billion is anything we need to worry about
> for
> > > now.
> > >
> > > I heard that before in an enterprise software startup I was part of
> (it
> > > was
> > > successful and is now part of GE in case you are interested). We hit
> the 2
> > > billion mark way sooner than expected because id's were being
> allocated in
> > > batches (similiar to ip address problem) and lots of unused id's were
> left
> > > in the middle. Anyway the point I am trying to drive home is that
> > > wordpress.com, rather than any individual blog, may reach the limit
> > > reasonably soon. Also I don't know if id's are reused, I don't think
> it
> > > is.
> > >
> > > My two cents...
> > > Angsuman
> > > http://blog.taragana.com/
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com
> > > [mailto:wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com]On Behalf Of Mark
> > > Jaquith
> > > Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 8:44 AM
> > > To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> > > Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Maximum # of users
> > > Importance: Low
> > >
> > >
> > > On Jan 30, 2007, at 6:54 PM, Charles Hooper wrote:
> > >
> > > > What's the maximum number of users Wordpress intends to support?
> > > > User IDs in wp_users are stored as BIGINT(20), however while
> > > > messing about with the caching functions I noticed that get_userdata
> > > > () casts the supplied ID to an integer, making ~2 billion the
> > > > maximum number of users possible that Wordpress can handle.
> > >
> > > WordPress 2.0.x can't handle much more than 800-1000 users because of
> > > the way wp-admin/users.php loads them all onto the same page (you run
> > > out of memory at this point).  2.1 fixes that and it can scale to at
> > > least 10,000, but I honestly have no idea what the ceiling is now.  I
> > > really don't think 2 billion is anything we need to worry about for
> now.
> > >
> > > --
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