PM Storage Limits

[Hotrodtractor]

What are the chances of getting our PM storage limits bumped up? 150 messages get filled up pretty damn quick....

 

[SouthFlstrokin']

:whs: i was just going to start a thread on this...

 

[CSIPSD]

You can save them on your own computer... Thats what I do and then delete them.

 

[Dustball8504]

Why not just delete them after awhile?

 

[SouthFlstrokin']

Cause 150 is very easily obtainable in one week.

 

[Dustball8504]

you guys must message a lot more than me, I'm up to 112 and haven't deleted since I joined haha

 

[morepower02]

Read them and delete them, or save to you computer. Why on earth do you need to keep 150 pm's?

 

[Dustball8504]

I keep the messages back and forth between people if I'm buying or selling them something so I can reference it if need be but once I receive an item or vice versa they get deleted.

 

[SIX_OHH]

I'm at 90% full. I ask people questions they might not answer on the forum, and keep them for future reference on my truck.

 

[444getsitdone]

I'm at, what for it... 18 pm's, so I'm good for the moment :rockon:

 

[Lowdown89]

Yeah I have to delete mine a lot be nice if we could have more maybe 250 cause I'm with the others when I'm buying and selling I like to be able to keep my convos

 

[crowz]

Ok its set to 250 now. We will see how that goes.

 

[SouthFlstrokin']

Thanks, should be at 500..

 

[Lowdown89]

Thanks, should be at 500..

Why not 2k? :shrug:

 

[SIX_OHH]

Does it cost more money to do this?

 

[crowz]

Does it cost more money to do this?

Money no, performance hell yeah.

Think about it. A database has overhead. Everytime you click a page or login it has see if you have unread messages right? New pm's and such.

Ok if everybody lets 250 messages build up it causes overhead on the server. Even if someone quits the site and never comes back those 250 messages are sitting in there from now till forever.

It used to be 150. Now its 250.

If it used to take 100ms to scan my 150 messages it now takes 190ms to see if I have new mail. Thats everytime I log in, everytime I click a link, everytime I do anything on the site.

Multiply that by 100 people online doing stuff at once you get some load.

Multiply that but 500 people online doing stuff at once you get a bunch of load.

Every extra point those message limits are raised you exponentially increase load.

I want to make sure everyone has enough space for that but thats why I dont pick huge numbers and instead just raise it as needed.

 

[Austin]

I just deleted all 93 of my PMs.

For the performance.

 

[crowz]

My box stays about full all the time so Im guilty as anyone else on letting them build up.

But thats why I wont just raise the limit real high. No ones going to police their pm box all the time. That would get old fast Id imagine

 

[7.3psd97444]

Well thats totaly understandable. Thanks for the bump in storage.

 

[Raul@stealth-automotive]

lol im usually always pretty full but just because i like to keep PM's back and forth for about a month just in case something goes wrong with an order ect....