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Topic: How to behave on QueenAlice.com
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| lecterror wrote:How could finishing games help conserving server space?? |
toguints wrote:I think it has to do with archiving. Instead of having computer resources regard long-standing games like timed-out ones as active, they may be marked inactive and filed and compacted accordingly. Resources (server space and processing power) can then be devoted to "legitimately" active games, like those that are not timed-out. |
Compacting finished games isn't worthwhile. An uncompacted game uses at most a kilobyte of disc space so hundreds of millions of them can already fit on a modern hard disc.
Given that the storage requirements for games are insignificant, it actually makes more work for the server to compress them: every game would have to be compressed when it was finished and decompressed whenever anybody asked for it. Much easier to just leave it sitting around on the disc, doing nothing until somebody asks for it.
As for claiming timed-out games, I would like to see an option for this to happen automatically. Exceptional circumstances aside, I'll always claim a game on time as soon as I can: keeping to the time control is part of the game.
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thank you for that info on "compacting". i work in a very data-intensive industry, so i am biased towards archiving whatever data that's isn't regularly needed.
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| Resources (server space and processing power) can then be devoted to "legitimately" active games, like those that are not timed-out. |
Assuming that Miguel is storing data in a MySQL database, games never use processing power and only a slight amount of server space. Archiving games would require storing them in another database using different storage engine which can't be used for the whole site. In other words: not worth the trouble even if it is doable.
| If we don't claim timed-out games, why place time controls in the first place |
I'm not saying that you should never ever claim games, time control can be a great thing. As you can see from the list of my games, I claim games too, but I never rush with it, or claim hastily against a weaker opponent (simply because the games are not too difficult to play for me and a couple of minutes of my time needed to play the move is not much to waste). But of course, I don't expect everyone to agree with me, de gustibus non disputandum. 
| 3. Lastly, please consider the context of what I said in my earlier post, and do not extend it to some generality that obviously I did not intended it to be. Some things will remain forbidden as a principle whether or not it's agreed to be allowed because the harm is quite obvious. |
It was just a joke
Cheers
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| lecterror wrote: de gustibus non disputandum. |
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur. 
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