My site is hosted at Hypermart and Links is dangerously close to getting my site shut down because of the resources it uses. The script jump.cgi has been generating a lot of "couldn't spawn child process: not enough memory" errors recently. So here's my thought... is it absolutely necessary to use jump.cgi?

In the link.html template, I changed:

<%db_cgi_url%>/jump.cgi?ID=<%ID%>

to simply:

<%URL%>

Will this cause any problems? Will it help the resource problem? I have it running like this now and I actually prefer having the actual URL as the hyperlink instead of /somepath/jump.cgi?ID=1. This almost seems too easy a fix, so I want to make sure I'm not really screwing something up by doing this.

Nothing actually, it is just that that Links can't track the hits for the resources you have. That's all. Other than that, you can just put the <%URL%> tag.