Just wanted to share a bit of info for anyone out there with a large forum.
Memory
I was having frequent issues updating or saving settings and pages. The main problem was due to the memory setting at the top of config.php (root) being too low. For some changes I needed to set this to 4GB!
Results Sizes
Widgets that return topics need to be restricted to just a few results (15 max). If you have a lot of traffic and set these too high it really affects performance!
Cache
The cache table system is quite effective however on a large forum it needs some really specific settings. We run a 365 day cache which is about 15GB table. This means our site is fast. With the default settings the site was very sluggish.
Memory
I was having frequent issues updating or saving settings and pages. The main problem was due to the memory setting at the top of config.php (root) being too low. For some changes I needed to set this to 4GB!
Results Sizes
Widgets that return topics need to be restricted to just a few results (15 max). If you have a lot of traffic and set these too high it really affects performance!
Cache
The cache table system is quite effective however on a large forum it needs some really specific settings. We run a 365 day cache which is about 15GB table. This means our site is fast. With the default settings the site was very sluggish.
