[wp-hackers] Paged Comments and Memory Usage

[Daniel Fenn]

On the subject of forum software is it a bad idea to use something
that fit in with Wordpress like buddy press? Would phpbb or mybb be
better?

On 15/02/2012, Jeremy Clarke <jer at simianuprising.com> wrote:
> I wouldn't be surprised if all the comments are loaded in memory, it makes
> sense from a lot of angles. Handling all the relationships between comments
> in a 10-deep hierarchy at the DB level would just move your performance
> problem from Apache into MySQL if you had that many comments to work with.
> Also I  imagine loading them all and sorting it out in PHP is not a problem
> 99% of the time for WP sites.
>
> 64MB isn't THAT bad in terms of a memory limit, some WP installs are just
> big and heavy (mine needs more than 64MB to run and I have to bump it up
> higher if I want an export to finish).
>
> FWIW 8000 comments on one post is also nuts, and 10-deep replies seems
> senseless to me. Ideally WP would handle it gracefully anyway, but how can
> that be a good experience for someone who wants to comment or read the
> comments already there? 8000 posts is enough to fill up an entire forum
> worth of threads, where there would be all kinds of useful navigation and
> UI for the task of handling such a complex discussion.
>
> PEOPLE: Limit your thread-depth to 5 and if one post gets more than a few
> hundred comments just close the discussion! The likelihood that you're
> getting productive comments after the 500th is very low, as is the
> likelihood that anyone is reading them all. Consider giving your community
> a forum or a stackexchange instead.
>
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Regards,
Daniel Fenn