Quick reply + subscribed threads = blah!

[HoleshotHolset]

I've been using the quick reply to reply to threads... but when I do this... it seems like I am no longer subscribed to the thread... . so I never know when someone replies to it except for the email notification.



I like using the User Control Panel as a 'thread watcher' more than anything... it shows me which threads have new content and which do not. Quick reply seems to get rid of this feature...



Matt

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

That is correct. Quick reply only submits your reply. That's why it says right above it "For more more options click on Post Reply". Quick reply doesn't look at your control panel for your default settings - if it did it would increase the number of SQL queries by a huge amount. You can click on subscribe to this thread down below the quick reply box if you want to subscribe to any particular thread. The quick reply is not meant in any way to replace the regular post reply function. It's there if you want to add a quick/small footnote to a thread.

 

[HoleshotHolset]

It's a bug!! (If I had a dime for every time I have said that or heard it at work... I'd be rich!!) :-laf



Thanks for the clarification...



Have you had any issues with SQL eating too much RAM? At work, its standard practice to set it to use 1/2 of the physical RAM... otherwise the rest of the threads don't have enough RAM to get by on... . (This is with 2GB systems with dual 2. 2GHz Xeons... . )



Matt

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

That's why we are adding RAM to the server's ASAP. That's why the site is slowing down some right now - the traffic grew in a big shot - more than I expected.

 

[HoleshotHolset]

I feel your pain!



[thinking outloud]

SQL will go from using 10MB to 2GB in real short order... . after it runs out of physical RAM... it uses virtual RAM... . then the page file grows like a SOB... . at which point your HDD activity goes through the roof and your system has come to a halt.



Throttling back on the RAM used by SQL will reduce the page file... but you take a hit on performance.

[/thinking outloud]



Matt

 

[MCummings]

Here's what you do...



Put a quick reply, then when the page loads again click "Subscribe to this thread"

viola,, subscription granted.



That's what I have been doing.





Merrick

 

[HoleshotHolset]

That'll work... but... .



It kinda makes the idea of replying quickly and moving on not so quick anymore...



Matt

 

[HEMI®Dart]

Off Topic

This is really not important but I wanted to reply to a question using the Ohm cararacter and the degree caracter in 1 post. It won't let both caracters go in 1 post. It scrambles them



Ohm Symbol = §Ù



Degree Symbol = ¡Æ

 

[SRadke]

Degrees I understand ° but how do you make the ohm symbol?



-Scott

 

[HEMI®Dart]

§Ù



nevermind. Ohms won't go in by itself anyway.



Ohm is in the charactor map.



It says the keyboard shorcut is U+2126

 

[SRadke]

What is that? All I want to make is the ohm symbol, you know, Omega. Degrees is simple, hold alt, type 248. How do you do ohms?



-Scott

 

[formula]

&#937 &#945 &#952 &#931



I did that by entering the HTML code for the characters. You can find the code here: http://www.tntluoma.com/sidebars/codes/



Sean

 

[SRadke]

Thanks, I did a little searching and did find the HTML codes but I don't know how to enter them. Is it as simple as an alt command?



-Scott

 

[formula]

The ALT+number commands won't work. As far as I know that's a shortcut for ascii code. For the HTML you have to include the code in place of the character when you compose your post. For the Omega character you'd type & #937 but remove the space between the & and # so it's all one string. &#937



Sean