Avatar file size limit

Meister · 05-31-2010, 11:03 AM

Is now 100 kb.

shiney · 05-31-2010, 12:34 PM

This will remain as such barring the unlikely circumstance that we run out of disk space. We're sitting on about 60 gigs. If you fuckers fill up the harddrive with avatars I will personally see to it that your lives end in the most horrible and humiliating way possible, like atomic wedgie, or choking to death on your girlfriend's dad's dick or something.

Nikose Tyris · 05-31-2010, 12:39 PM

I see nobody ran that one through the Krylo-izer.

Seriously, we haven't filled 60 GB with text yet? I'm kind of amazed.

greed · 05-31-2010, 01:01 PM

Man I REALLY want to see a PR spin on that statement.

synkr0nized · 05-31-2010, 01:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nikose Tyris

Seriously, we haven't filled 60 GB with text yet? I'm kind of amazed.

... Do you know how much text that would take?

TDK · 05-31-2010, 01:16 PM

It would be 60 billion characters, and with about 860,000 posts currently, assuming, perhaps rather generously, that each post is an average of 100 characters, that's 86 million bytes or 8.6 gigs...So tha'ts kinda far off, but that's not taking into account long posts (or short posts).

There's also the html, colored text, and just the bytes taken up by the posting system and stuff. I can only assume it takes more bytes to store a post than just the number of bytes equivalent to the characters they take up.

So I wouldn't be too surprised if we were getting up there. Probably around 20 gigs perhaps? That's not even taking into account hosted images, threads, user profiles, and all that other shit.

synkr0nized · 05-31-2010, 04:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TDK

It would be 60 billion characters, and with about 860,000 posts currently, assuming, perhaps rather generously, that each post is an average of 100 characters, that's 86 million bytes or 8.6 gigs...So tha'ts kinda far off, but that's not taking into account long posts (or short posts).

There's also the html, colored text, and just the bytes taken up by the posting system and stuff. I can only assume it takes more bytes to store a post than just the number of bytes equivalent to the characters they take up.

Check your math, perhaps? Let's for now ignore the base two aspect of bytes and keep it in base ten for simplicity.

860,000 x 100 = 86,000,000 characters, going along with your numbers
Using the old standard of 1 character = 1 byte, that's thus 86 million bytes, as you said.
86,000,000 / 1000 = 86,000 Kilobytes; 86000/1000 = 86 Megabytes; 86 / 1000 = 0.086 GB, not 8.6

It's slightly less, of course, using 1024 per conversion.

On top of that, note that all data such as avatar, signatures, page format, posts, etc. are contained in PHP and SQL files. And that this information only needs to be stored ONCE regardless of how many times it appears in a thread or how many different users are requesting pages. This means that while each individual page rendered by your browser may seem to have a lot of text to contribute to the total much of it is in fact only drawn together when a page is requested by a browser connecting a user to the server.

It is true that adding color tags and storing the avatars and signature pictures will bump that up slightly, as will the slight overhead of needing identifiers and keys for the database, but it's not going to be as dramatic as a person my at first assume and drastically reduces the storage needs overall.

That seems pretty reasonable, then, that archiving the text aspects with the images we have uploaded that we come in around 200 MB.

rpgdemon · 05-31-2010, 07:26 PM

I'mma upload a ten gig file. THEN WHAT?

bluestarultor · 05-31-2010, 07:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rpgdemon

I'mma upload a ten gig file. THEN WHAT?

They'll ban you a few days from now when it finishes.

Corel · 05-31-2010, 01:21 PM

With that in mind; Do our posts actually have a character limit on them?

Just in case, you know... if somebody held down the 'A' key for 60^9 times and then accidently pressed submit reply.

05-31-2010, 11:03 AM	#1
Meister Pure joy Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Germany Posts: 10,689	Avatar file size limit Is now 100 kb.

05-31-2010, 12:34 PM	#2
shiney Derrrrrrrrrrrrrp. Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: The land of fartz and buttz Posts: 8,266	This will remain as such barring the unlikely circumstance that we run out of disk space. We're sitting on about 60 gigs. If you fuckers fill up the harddrive with avatars I will personally see to it that your lives end in the most horrible and humiliating way possible, like atomic wedgie, or choking to death on your girlfriend's dad's dick or something. __________________ boop

05-31-2010, 07:26 PM	#8
rpgdemon Not a Taco Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 3,313	I'mma upload a ten gig file. THEN WHAT? __________________ I did a lot of posting on here as a teenager, and I was pretty awful. Even after I learned, grew up, and came to be on the right side of a lot of important issues, I was still angry, abrasive, and generally increased the amount of hate in the world, in pretty unacceptable ways. On the off chance that someone is taking a trip down memory lane looking through those old threads, I wanted to devote my signature to say directly to you, I'm sorry. Thank you for letting me be better, NPF.

05-31-2010, 01:21 PM	#10
Corel Welcome, to Paedogeddon! Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 1,015	That's a whole lot of key pressing. Forum would throw it back at me anyway. With that in mind; Do our posts actually have a character limit on them? Just in case, you know... if somebody held down the 'A' key for 60^9 times and then accidently pressed submit reply. __________________ Last edited by Corel; 05-31-2010 at 01:23 PM.

05-31-2010, 01:16 PM	#6
TDK Sent to the cornfield Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Reality Posts: 2,914	It would be 60 billion characters, and with about 860,000 posts currently, assuming, perhaps rather generously, that each post is an average of 100 characters, that's 86 million bytes or 8.6 gigs...So tha'ts kinda far off, but that's not taking into account long posts (or short posts). There's also the html, colored text, and just the bytes taken up by the posting system and stuff. I can only assume it takes more bytes to store a post than just the number of bytes equivalent to the characters they take up. So I wouldn't be too surprised if we were getting up there. Probably around 20 gigs perhaps? That's not even taking into account hosted images, threads, user profiles, and all that other shit.