should we still be cleaning out old PMs, tracked messages etc?

[2big4mysize]

I know we now have way more "room" then on the old sofware but eventuallu our size will catch up to the limits of this software too. Will it help iof we clean out the tracked messages boxes since the default is to get a recipte for every PM sent?

How about our PM boxes of old messages?

What about our subscrition threads pages?

[Perry]

Re: should we still be cleaning out old PMs, tracked messages etc?

No need to purge. You will eventually hit the limits we set for your PM box and subscriptions and will have to clean them up to send/receive more.

[2big4mysize]

Re: should we still be cleaning out old PMs, tracked messages etc?

okay but that subscribed page limit must be big cause I got 23 pages already

Good to see you back Perry

[Kent]

Re: should we still be cleaning out old PMs, tracked messages etc?

Your subscribed messages are different that pm's as you know, and do not impact board performance. There is no limit on the number of subscriptions you can have. If there is, I have not found a mention of such at the Vbulletin support pages.

One further clarification -- tracking messages do not go against your private message limits.

okay but that subscribed page limit must be big cause I got 23 pages already

Good to see you back Perry

[2big4mysize]

Re: should we still be cleaning out old PMs, tracked messages etc?

okay so we will not be having any crashes and emergency culling cause things got too full cause y'all told us not to clear unneeded stuff out?

[Kent]

Re: should we still be cleaning out old PMs, tracked messages etc?

The database and forum software in place for the new version should be able to handle a board 10-100x as large as large as ours. The server is handling the new board fine, and culling should not be necessary from a board perspective. Just keep within your limits, and everything should be fine.

[2big4mysize]

Re: should we still be cleaning out old PMs, tracked messages etc?

just rememeber ours was emergency culled in May so we have nothing from before that. we are growing exponentalyy and soon will be 100X our current size.

[Perry]

Re: should we still be cleaning out old PMs, tracked messages etc?

How do you determine that we will soon be 100x our current size? In any event, Tom has monitoring on disk usage and if it hits a certain percentage he will just add more.

Kent, wasn't sure about the subscription limit so I just lumped that in with the PM counts. Why anyone would want to subscribe to hundreds of threads is beyond me. I think I may have followed 1 thread in my whole time on vBulletin here.

[Kent]

Re: should we still be cleaning out old PMs, tracked messages etc?

I have mine set to automatically subscribe to all posts I respond too. You never know when someone might post "you are looking great, Kent" in a really old forgotten post.

[Perry]

Re: should we still be cleaning out old PMs, tracked messages etc?

Fair enough.

Now, try that with the running Amok lessons thead and you'll see where I'm coming from.

[2big4mysize]

Re: should we still be cleaning out old PMs, tracked messages etc?

LOL so running amuck brought you out of retirement

[Perry]

Re: should we still be cleaning out old PMs, tracked messages etc?

Not quite ready to give up the good life but it did peak my interest when I saw that Tom's Lessons Forum experiment was highjacked.

Quite a thread, I must say.

[2big4mysize]

Re: should we still be cleaning out old PMs, tracked messages etc?

hijacked what do you mean that is lessons in runningamuk 101

Hopefully soon there will be one in codes for posting pics and such since the info in our how to stickies doesn't work on this software.