Comments on: Misbehaving Comment Relish Plugin

By: A Little Too Much Relish... - Internet Marketing Sucks!

A Little Too Much Relish... - Internet Marketing Sucks! — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 16:31:58 +0000

[...] was considering using it myself, until it crashed John Chow’s blog for two [...]

By: Comment Relish | Webd360 Blog

Comment Relish | Webd360 Blog — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 02:46:17 +0000

[...] few days ago his database crashed (and maximized his server load) because of this plugin. He later explained that the problem occurred because the plugin goes through every comment in your database to see [...]

By: andre nosalsky

andre nosalsky — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:18:20 +0000

Good point, that will help it even more.

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Mr. P | CASH for COMMENTS — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:15:51 +0000

Wow. You guys are quick. It’s nice to know that JC has legions of followers to support him.

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By: Live By The Google, Die By The Google « John Chow dot Com

Live By The Google, Die By The Google « John Chow dot Com — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 07:04:18 +0000

[...] Looking at my logs, I concluded that the Googlebot must have came around the time when the crazy Comment Relish plugin did the MySQL DOS attack on me and took the blog down for almost two [...]

By: Comment relish optimization | PatchLog

Comment relish optimization | PatchLog — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:44:35 +0000

[...] and his huge number of comments ( 43000 ? ) put the site down for about 2 hours. He said the plugin misbehaved and he would not recommend it if you have a lot of [...]

By: Patches and hacks

Patches and hacks — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:00:04 +0000

I made some modifications to it and tested on 25000 comments, It takes about one second for it to figure out where to send the messages. You can read more details about comment relish optimisation here

By: Comment relish optimisation | PatchLog

Comment relish optimisation | PatchLog — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:40:02 +0000

[...] and his huge number of comments ( 43000 ? ) put the site down for about 2 hours. He said the plugin misbehaved and he would not recommend it if you have a lot of [...]

By: Patches and hacks

Patches and hacks — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 07:27:13 +0000

To make it even better, change the email field in cr_emailed table from TINYTEXT to VARCHAR(255) [ ALTER TABLE `wp_cr_emailed` CHANGE `email` `email` varchar(255) ] and add an index on that column too [ ALTER TABLE wp_cr_emailed ADD INDEX ( email ) ] . that way it will use indexes in both tables when it makes a query to find out where to send the messages and the query will be faster and less resource consuming.

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:16:18 +0000

I considered using the plugin but I just don’t want to bother my readers with emails. Maybe it would help them come back but I just don’t like to bother people.