How many themes can an smf forum hold and still run smoothly ?

Started by kingkingston, March 06, 2011, 05:33:14 PM

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kingkingston

Just wondering if people out there have crazy numbers and their forum still runs smoothly

NanoSector

erhm it will always run smoothly as long as the theme being used doesn't have too much images...
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Arantor

The physical limit is thousands, and in reality it won't make too many problems if you do have thousands. It might start to be an issue if you keep changing over and over and over because the user specific options get stored per theme, so lots of users with custom options, across lots of themes will slow the themes table down.

The number of images isn't really a problem, most often they get cached anyway.

Deaks

well you can run thousands if you modify the db, but by default you can run 250 :)

I know as I ran into the limit without knowing about it when i ran smfthemes
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Arantor

I actually thought it was a smallint rather than a tinyint that it actually uses :o

Deaks

maybe it is now it was 1.1.x line when smftheme started
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Former SMF Customizer

"For as lang as hunner o us is in life, in nae wey
will we thole the Soothron tae owergang us. In truth it isna for glory, or wealth, or
honours that we fecht, but for freedom alane, that nae honest cheil gies up but wi life
itsel."

Arantor

Nope, 2.0 line still has tinyint column there; they figure no-one really needs that many themes.

Deaks

yeh not sure why people would want more than 250 themes
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"For as lang as hunner o us is in life, in nae wey
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honours that we fecht, but for freedom alane, that nae honest cheil gies up but wi life
itsel."

Arantor


Deaks

~~~~
Former SMF Project Manager
Former SMF Customizer

"For as lang as hunner o us is in life, in nae wey
will we thole the Soothron tae owergang us. In truth it isna for glory, or wealth, or
honours that we fecht, but for freedom alane, that nae honest cheil gies up but wi life
itsel."

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