Limit URL Length Caused the Server to Crash

hello guys
I posted this on twitter and @vbseo suggested I post it here
I was working on a site earlier tonight and going down the vbseo settings and they had 0 in the url lenght limit, well I always put this at 158 so I did so on this site. Next thing I knew the site was crashing, and very high server loads according to the acp (I saw it as high as 52!! )

I thought it might of been some of the other vbseo settings I had changed, so I quickly reverted all the changes and the load started dropping back down. Once it was down in the teens I started making changing, and checking. By this time I had SSH'd into the server so I could watch the load directly. Everything was running fine till I changed this url length again.

So I ended up just leaving it at 0, but was wondering if anyone else had ever ran into this?

thanks
-Brandon

ps, these are the server stats
Threads: 156,461, Posts: 3,198,717, Members: 126,189, Active Members: 10,601
pps. I didn't look at the load in the acp when I was finished, but on putty it was below 1, and the owner said they never have a problem with high load

this has been a known issue for a while now. not sure if there's a fix (other than leave it blank)

Limit Url lenght is word count Brandon. Max suggested setting is 6-7. I believe you considered it as character count and added a value over 100

Originally Posted by Mert Gökçeimam

Limit Url lenght is word count Brandon. Max suggested setting is 6-7. I believe you considered it as character count and added a value over 100

ahhh
did this change? wasn't it measured in characters at one point?

thanks for confirming Brian, and Mert

It was always set to word count.

maybe this is what I was thinking of
"Define the 'META DESCRIPTION' Length?"
but I thought it was in reference to the URL
oh well, I know now