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[Swamper]

I've customized vBulletin to the tits on TranceAddict.com .... :)

I normally have 100-150+ simultaneous users in the forums and it can handle 400+ without much effort..

"forum jump, users listed, and number of threads/message displayed on one page reduced."

Forum Jump doesn't affect speeds, it's just the javascript thrown at the end - it just uses the value of $forumid (which it already knows and is in memory) to decide on what forum as default when you click on the jump box..

Threads/messages displayed is the same thing - depending on forum settings it looks for the # of messages posted within x days (as per your settings - users can override this in their control panel though) - and then cuts it into pages - I'm assuming your main bottleneck is mysql and not apache sending out the page.

Things to do:

1 - turn off persistent connections in php.ini
2 - install a php cache like apc (http://apc.communityconnect.com)

I'm guessing the site isn't on a dedicated machine and that's why your ISP is *****ing at you.. do you have the server specs handy?

Nice colour scheme too.

[DirtyLude]

Our main bottleneck does not seem to be MySQL. Looking at the processes the MySQL is fairly simple and should not be giving us the CPU load that it is.

I cannot install a PHP module, but I will recommend it to our provider.

Persistant connections to MySQL are already off.

We are not on a dedicated box. Our provider will be culling the number of sites on thei box soon, though.

I received a 2.2.3 update message from vBulletin today with a list of fixes. I'll be updating it tomorrow.

If you have any other suggestions let me know, but there are other copies of vBulletin (older versions) running on this same box with very large user loads with no problems. Unless this update fixes I'm not certain where to go.