[davio33]

Thank you for the replys.

Each forum has to store a set of permissions for itself (global to that forum) and all of the usergroups permissions (8) by default on the forumhome load.

Is there a way around this, so i guess maybe so it isnt checking permissions per forum?

You said "by defualt on the forumhome load" does this mean the permissions are asked only on forum home?

do you think any good would come from deleting unused groups?

This is a good idea. I see were i can delete additional groups, but not the defualt groups. I really dont need, users awaiting confirmation/moderated users/ banned users...of course, without these groups, would the software still try to place these users

such as copying /usr/share/mysql/my-huge.cnf to /etc/my.cnf to boost its performance?

This is a little above me. my.cnf is looking good, but im not sure what you mean by copying it. I tryed googling it, but need more to go on. thanks for your input

I would advise installing APC/xcache/etc and moving the vBulletin datastore into it.
Increase the php memory limit to 256, mysql max_packet_size should be fine.

Thank you, will increase limit and instal xchache

in Settings -> Admin Control Panel Options -> Forum Manager Display are you set to "Single" ? You should be with that many forums.

whoa! 7 years with vb and i never noticed that. Finally I dont have to wait for the forum manager to load...