[David_R]

Originally Posted by SEO Report

David_R,

(Sorry for the late reply)



I didn't try it (not yet ). I'm not sure, I'm afraid it will crash my server.



I installed a private test forum and setup this hack on it (total of 3 different forums with their respective gateway.php instance running every hour), this way I could simulate multi-threading & hopefully speed up the import process. The msg imported into the test forum would be ported to the live one using impex (very fast, since both forums are located within the same machine)

I don't have enough data to make any conclusion, but as far as I can see, the speed is almost the same.

Perhaps the script is already running at maximum speed, or perhaps as the author suggested, the import is slow because of the similair threads thing, I don't know (I have a dedicated box with 100Mbps, my nntp provider doesn't limit download speed).

In my case, getting a dedicated box and switching to a better nntp provider helped me speed up the process.

HTH,
-k

I have tried with 3 nntp providers on a Dual Xeon with 8 GB RAM dedicated box.
But no improvements. It takes more then 12 hours to import about 2,00,000 posts