[adnoid]

Originally Posted by boggseric

I just set it up using the info in post 1 and the files from post 582

I used the info from this post to make sure it stayed running and this post to setup the crons for delta and nightly.

Other than that the only changes I made were from my previous post to fix the "find more posts by this user" issue.

It is now up and running on my 3.8.4pl2 forums with:
Threads: 799,861, Posts: 11,892,282, Members: 24,815

I set the max amount of of results to 20,000 and it's working great. Searches no longer take my forum to it's knees.

The things I haven't done yet are to remove the indexes from post and convert my tables to innodb.


Total cost? My time reading through this never ending thread and compiling the data above.

Thank you for putting this all together. I've been looking at the alternatives for our board, now approaching 5,000,000 posts. I'm not a heavyweight coder, but I'll be giving your method a shot.