GD’s databases are ALWAYS modified

  • Synetech

    (@synetech)


    12 years, 9 months ago

    GD Star Rating is pretty good, but why is it that it always modifies its databases?

    If you run the webserver then stop it, you will see that even if nothing else changed, the database files for GD have been updated. Why is this? Why does it modify the database(s) and write the files even if nothing has actually changed (i.e., no new ratings or changes)?

    I use the multi-blog feature of WordPress and the wp_*_gdsr_data_article.ibd files always get modified when I shut down the web server. This is really annoying because I run WordPress from a flash-drive, so having GD make a dozen unnecessary writes to the drive every time I run the web-server (i.e., every day) is bad.

    Worse, it looks like GD is causing the *options.ibd files to get modified as well which means it’s writing to twice as many files.

    Why is it doing this and how can I get it to stop (short of outright disabling the plugin of course)?

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