Re: [Slashcode-development] comment question

[Ask S. G. <cl...@sl...>]

On Mon, 16 Apr 2001 21:22:53 -0700, CertIndex.com Webmaster said:

>  anyone know what commentspill in users_comments does? commentlimit determines the number of
>  comments to display per page, but what does commentspill do?
>  
>  thanks. been beating my head against this one and playing around on /. to try to figure it out
>  for a while now.

A users commentlimit is fine for light stories (stories between 100-150
comments, I think), but for larger stories, the system needs to establish an
override for this limit (if 50 users ask for a 500 comment article and display
all 500 comments, you can figure out how badly the machine will get loaded. Do
the math for yourself and see...)....

So commentspill is the system limit to prevent this from occurring...at least
as I've determined, as I was in the same spot as you are about a month ago.

So commentspill takes effect when stories hit a certain number of comments and 
if commentlimit > commentspill.

Hope this explains it.

- Cliff