Everything looks weird

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Ted Feb 2013 1:28pm, 8 Feb 2013 12,614 posts	0 Ted i.chzbgr.com
GregP Feb 2013 1:30pm, 8 Feb 2013 65,186 posts	0 GregP Suck it up, Jockyboy. All attention is good attention. We want to stand tall, to feel the sunlight, to live again. We need a physical form and your dead are abandoned. They go to waste. Give them to us.
Kimbles Feb 2013 1:37pm, 8 Feb 2013 2,942 posts	0 Kimbles Has the notifications setting gone?
Ted Feb 2013 1:38pm, 8 Feb 2013 12,615 posts	0 Ted I am sure a certain Mr Saville would have argued against that point if he were not rotting underground.
fetcheveryone Feb 2013 1:38pm, 8 Feb 2013 12,400 posts	0 fetcheveryone In the last five days, the web server has handled about 5.2M requests for various resources e.g. pages, images, CSS files, Javascript files - and about 0.75M of those requests have been for icons. So whilst I think the main bottleneck during peak time is the database, I'm sure it can't hurt to reduce the load on the web server either.
sprouty76 Feb 2013 1:40pm, 8 Feb 2013 4,501 posts	0 sprouty76 Personally I'd set an expiry date on stuff like the icons too - no need to request them every single page load, even if you do just return a not-modified or whatever it's called.
JenL Feb 2013 1:42pm, 8 Feb 2013 23,861 posts	0 JenL
GregP Feb 2013 2:00pm, 8 Feb 2013 65,199 posts	0 GregP Since when did an undertaker keep office hours? The dead don't die on schedule. I demand to see your master.
RuthB2 Feb 2013 2:01pm, 8 Feb 2013 11,047 posts	0 RuthB2 ah-ha! you see, fetch, told you icons were Bad Things. Wonder how much faster the site would run without smileys too?
Nick Cook Feb 2013 2:02pm, 8 Feb 2013 11,238 posts	0 Nick Cook