How many addrows is considered numerous? I've used it before many times and have never had the performance problem you describe. Perhaps there is a threshold where the performance becomes poor.
Mike James Macfarlane wrote: > Yup, <@ADDROWS> sucks! > > Recently one of our servers was slowing down to a snail's pace. The CPU > would suddenly jump to 100% for a few minutes. We thought it was bad > code, like an endless loop or something in one of the applications. We > moved the applications, one at a time, to another server and found the > culprit. > > I opened up the application and voila! There were numerous ADDROWS > commands being run to build a list of ad banners on the page -- on every > load! We're going to have to rewrite the thing. > > We've pretty well had to ban use of <@ADDROWS> in the department. I have > no idea why it's so slow -- like it's running it from disk, rather then > from RAM -- it's THAT slow. Hopefuly this is something that's fixed in > V5 (hint, hint). > > - James. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Nathan Hitchcock > Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 2:49 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk > Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: Is Witango slow at doing nasty math? - No, > it's <@ADDROWS> > > You are indeed correct about the <@ADDROWS> tag being the culprit. > Removing it resulted in a previous 12 second calc loop for 204 matches > taking only 1 second! Apperently, Witango can do trigonomic math faster > than the average 11th grader. :) > > ________________________________________________________________________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body -- Mike Tyranski Lynch2 p: 847.608.6900 f: 847.608.9501 http://www.lynch2.com ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body