Performance Settings

This pages provides a brief overview of all VotingPlugin config options to can optimize plugin performance.
This page is still a work in progress

Mysql

Adjust concurrent plugin connections to mysql database
Having more than can improve performance slightly, but more than 2 is won't make much of a difference

MaxConnections: 1

TopVoter settings

Disabling loading unneeded top voter data can improve background performance.
Especially when multiple servers with large amounts of users are present

# These are required to be enabled in order for top voter awards to work
LoadTopVoter:
  AllTime: true
  Monthly: true
  Weekly: false
  Daily: false

Lowering this number improves background loading performance with large amounts of users

# Maxium number of players to show on top voter
# Set to -1 for no limit
MaxiumNumberOfTopVotersToLoad: 1000

Background task settings

Enabling this allows persite cooldown rewards/reminders, but uses more resources

# Enable per site cooldown events, requires more resources to use
# Requires restart
PerSiteCoolDownEvents: false

Enabling this disables cool down checks for all voting sites combined. Has no effect on vote reminders

# If true, cooldown check is disabled
DisableCoolDownCheck: false

Enabling this may improve performance slightly

# If true, disable PlayerInteractEvent (for clicking signs and skulls)
DisableInteractEvent: false

Disabling processing and storing votestreaks
Also lowers amount of sql queries needed

# If false, votestreaks will be disabled
UseVoteStreaks: true

Disabling processing and storing highest totals Also lowers amount of sql queries needed

# If false, storing best totals will be disabled
UseHighestTotals: true

Enabling this can have a significant performance impact depending on what javascript is ran
Also has a performance impact even if no javascript is used in placeholders

# When enabled, javascript will be parsed on placeholders (from placeholderapi)
# allows more fancy placeholders with math for example
UseJavascriptPlaceholders: false

Not recommended enabling unless you have a really good reason
This causes background updates to always happen based on the update interval set below

# Only update in the background when needed when set to false
AlwaysUpdate: false

Only perform background updates with players online

# Update in the background only if players are online
UpdateWithPlayersOnlineOnly: false

Delay between checking if a background update should be done
Between 3-10 minutes is recommended for most people

# Delay between background updates like signs and more
# Default: 3 Minutes
# Longer times result in longer wait in stuff updating after a vote, like topvoter
DelayBetweenUpdates: 3

This options performances extra background checks
Should only be needed in some multi-server setups that don't trigger updates on other servers

# Enable to true for extra player checks
# Recommend leaving this to false
ExtraBackgroundUpdate: false

This could improve performance of tab completes

# Disable checking permissions on tab complete
DisableAdvancedTab: false

Placeholder settings

Default settings are the best
Details available here: https://github.com/BenCodez/VotingPlugin/wiki/PlaceHolderAPI-Expansion

Skulls

This options preloads skulls for top voter GUI
This can have a huge performance impact in some cases

# Preload skulls to improve performance for vote top
# when using skulls as the item to display players
# If false, skulls will be cached as they are used
# assuming loadskulls is enabled
PreloadSkulls: false

Similar to preload skulls option, but only loads as skulls are used
This is more recommended then PreloadSkulls

# Setting to false disables saving skulls in a cache to improve speeds
# Will reduce ram usage (very little) if disabled, but slow GUI speeds when using skulls
LoadSkulls: true