Site is slow

[Phero]

Been slow for a couple of days, are you guys working on it?

[Dr_Grinch]

Been slow for a couple of days, are you guys working on it?

Yup

[Dr_Grinch]

Been slow for a couple of days, are you guys working on it?

Yup

[Gabriel]

Site is fast now. You guys done? Keep us updated.

[Dr_Grinch]

Site is fast now. You guys done? Keep us updated.

New site is live, but it looks like there's a nasty split in the DB around 2008... Not sure what Penguin will have to do next to import the remaining messages.

[Penguin]

The import script dies at around the 1.6-1.8 million messages mark.

The gritty details are:

- I'm hacking into the database and scripts directly to make the import work (due to hidden corruption)
- The import takes about 24 hours, due to the insane amount of posts/topics in our old forum

2008 was the time Jelsoft started being dicks and it was decided to drop their shitty forum software?

[Penguin]

It's not really related... Everything was successfully converted to phpBB at the time. Biggest annoyance right now is the 'random moment of death' importing posts. Every time I have to restart it, it means another 24 hr. wait to see if the fix worked

[Shwaggy]

Ouch. Well, thanks again for soldiering on penguin. Much appreciated.

That sounds like somewhat of a nightmare :/ Thanks for doing this Peng, I imagine it must be kind of annoying

[g]

^^ agreed

that said. does this mean you\re changing the board software? i wasnt sure if this was the new site since i seem to recall a post saying otherwise

^^ agreed

that said. does this mean you\re changing the board software? i wasnt sure if this was the new site since i seem to recall a post saying otherwise

That's the plan and I think we are switching to SMF, right Penguin?

[Penguin]

Ugh, this is starting to piss me off... It still keeps dying without any recognizable error. Starting the 4th attempt now

Yes, we intend to switch to SMF, as it's MUCH easier to administrate, secure and update.

[SkiLLz]

Probably a stupid question, but can't you split the import into batches instead of trying to do it in one shot?

[Penguin]

Probably a stupid question, but can't you split the import into batches instead of trying to do it in one shot?

It's already being done in batches. That's how the convert script operates to prevent itself from overloading the site and/or database.

The problem is not so much with the batching, the problem is that the phpBB setup contains a lot of 'hidden corruption'. In technical terms, this means table contents that don't match the table type, table contents that cannot be converted to the target table type, etc.