After added 1000 new sub forums, Sometime get high load on dedicated server

[basketmen]

My forum is region board, so i want add many new sub forums by region (like province-state-city), it created more than 1000 new sub forums (all have option No in "Show this Forum and Child Forums on the Forum Jump Menu" so there is not too much choiches in the Jump menu)


My server get problem after adding those more than 1000 new sub forums, sometime get high load and cant access the board (Load averages can be more than 100-200, normally only 1-2), so i need to restart the apache so can access the board again


I use dedicated server, default memory_limit are 32M, i already try to increase it to 256M but still get high load


so my question : can't vbulletin have unlimited forums/subforums and still running normal (like 1000 sub forums above)? like having unlimited thread and post



please help guys share your knowledge, is there a board with more than 1000 forums/subforums using vbulletin out there...







Nb.1. After i removed again those 1000 new sub forums, my board got back normal again, never get high load again



Nb.2. This is my script version and server spec if needed

Vbulletin 3.6.8
vbseo 3.2.0

* INTEL Core 2 Duo E8400
* 4 GB VGEN DDR2 533 PC-5300, 16 IC
* 2 x 250 GB Hard Disk
* Motherboard : Gigabyte, G31MS2L, Socket LGA 775, Intel G31 Chipset, FSB 1333/1066/800Mhz, Audio, USB 2.0, VGA, LAN, 6x SATA Controller
* WHM/Cpanel

[Zachery]

No, it can't actually. There is a design limitation. Whenever people come around asking about this I tell them its a ton of work to do, manage, and it will cause server sometimes extreme server load.

How would you even navigate 1000+ forums/subforums. You have better tools at your disposal. Use thread prefixes/tags/etc to seperate your content out based on region instead of trying to make thousands and thousands of subforums.

[viper357]

If I can hijack this thread ever so slightly, is there significant server load increase if you have too many forums and subforums? If I have about 75 forums and about 30 subforums, will this increase my server load?

Thanks.

[TNCclubman]

best results is to have just one forum.

GENERAL FORUM.

lol

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by viper357

If I can hijack this thread ever so slightly, is there significant server load increase if you have too many forums and subforums? If I have about 75 forums and about 30 subforums, will this increase my server load?

Thanks.

Doubtful. 100 is considerably smaller than 1000 forums X 7 usergroups.