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Originally Posted by Marco van Herwaarden
In some situations it might be advisable to change some tables from MyIsam (table-level locking, no transactions) to InnoDB (row-level locking, with transactions). Using this kind of tuning, requires probably an experienced MySQL-administrator.
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For large forums is there any reason not to use InnoDB? If you use InnoDB, you also could also modify the forum searches to READ UNCOMMITTED and pickup some performance there without any locking at all.