UBB.Developers Forums UBB.classic V5 Mod Questions Search.cgi (view today's active topics) cpu intensive!

Hi guys on 5.47e, there is a default link "view today's active topics" which uses "search.cgi?action=getdaily"

I know how cpu intensive search script is and I have search disabled.

However the command above is useful and so I still have the link on display. But this badly written script (or so I think) chews up 80-85% of cpu time at the time it runs (for however many milliseconds)!!

Is there any way in Linux I can create a special file "search.cgi" in the ubb bin directory which actually calls out "nice -n 19 REALsearchscript.cgi" so that by default whenever search.cgi is run, it runs with nice -n 19 ???

In Linux as far as I know I can nice an entire account that runs all the scripts but I just want this one script to be niced.

Or is there any other way to decrease cpu usage of this script when used with active topics daily? Thx in adv!

hi svr,

i modified the script. it is now faster (only with many postings). i'm not ready yet...

i post it when i'm ready. i think onwendsday i have time to finish the mod.

the first version of speedup the "daily topic display" is ready.

you can download the mod here

Thanks, interesting, I'll def. hack it and get back to you soon!!

Just briefly could you tell us all what changes are you making?

i read the daily topic direct in a hash and copy the data to an array to display them.
now you dont need a check for double entries. this saves time.

i test it with 150 entries.
time with old getdaily: 150 ms (average)
time with new getdaily: 90 ms (average)

Hmm I just hacked it you seem to be missing a } bracket somewhere in this hack above coz it complains about unclosed curly bracket with perl -c.

If I understand you correctly you want all the code between

if (-e "$NonCGIPath/dailyindex-$LastLoginJulianDATE.file") {

AND

print<
to be replaced by the hacked code right?

In other words the two lines above do not need to be replaced right?

yes...

remove the line
do not need to be replaced

Hi there it works that is, it definitely reduces cpu usage. BUT it also shows multiple topics (same topics that were active) so my list of active topics actually goes up 3x because it is showing duplicate (or more) topics in the same list. I think you may have to add the duplicate topic code check back in?

can you post a line from the daily index?

Sure here it is:

5|006019|nina01|01-15-2002|im back|Nina

Hi jokingdown do let me know when you find the time to patch it. thx.

i look at it tomorrow. today i was on a very long meeting...

Hey joking'down I am waiting for the hack/mod thx!

i found the error

search

$tempData[2] contain the authors name...

You sir, are a coder par excellence