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dimensionmedia:
Greetings... i've taken over a LARGE website getting a ton of traffic (over a million hits a day right now). They are using SMF 1.0 RC2 (yeah, I know, really old). Currently, the web server is crashing - many times due to many people using the forums (hundreds). It looks like SMF is using alot of memory, and perhaps causing the mysql services to choke.

I know I got to upgrade... but how easy is it from my current version? Also, what kind of stress can SMF take? My client wants to continue the forum so anyone here run boards that have over 400 people in them at once?

One important factor... my site is using SMF as a login/logout for the entire site, even outside the forums. I'm guessing the previous developer custom coded the pages.

Thanks!

Trekkie101:
Its as easy as uploading the new files and running a quick script!

http://www.simplemachines.org/download.php

The file you want it, http://www.simplemachines.org/download.php/smf_1-1-beta3p_upgrade.zip, then extract and override the current files on the site, then run upgrade.php.

SMF can take huge loads, http://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/      1278 Guests, 561 Users (18 Hidden)  Users active in past 30 minutes. And its still loading in 0.2 seconds :D (Thats 1 server btw)

Now thats good, also there are some small database tweaks you can make to make things faster. SMF 1.1 is already more efficient, its only beta just now but is very stable and probably a better idea to upgrade to.

dimensionmedia:
Thanks Trekkie. I knew SMF could handle big loads, but this puts me to ease.

I'm wondering why I'm having problems... maybe SMF 1.0 RC2 maybe is not as efficient?

I have a single server, Dual Intel Xeon 2.4 with 1GB RAM. The server usually crashes when there's about 300 people online (about 1/3 of them users). The server is getting pounded, but I can pretty much say SMF is the problem (I turn it off, and the server stays up).

I guess upgrading is my next step.

Tomer:
I would also say upgrading would help your board the best.

You can also try running the maintenance tasks in the admin panel, that may help.

Good Luck

Trekkie101:
I know SMF 1.1 is much more efficient.

Also ive you can change certain tables to InnoDB (search for which ones) and that increases the efficiency of MySQL.

As for it crashing, it shouldnt do that. Is the server MySQL 3 or 4?, SMF was optimised for MySQL 4 and will work a lot better on that.

Do you have a php accelarator installed to help speed things up and cause less load?

And finally, is the server configured to give optimum performance, hopefully you dont have all that ram going to waste.

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