VBulletin 3 to IPB 4 > Big board conversion rebuild issues

ethan

ethan

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Hi,

I'm helping convert a massive Vbulletin 3 board (6 million posts, 500,000 members) to IPB 4. We've got all the transferring down, however, the IPB rebuild process is taking ages.

We've had it going for a few days and it's only at 6%. We set it to run on a cron job once every minute roughly a day ago and since then it's only gone up about 1 percent (5% to 6%)

This is obviously slowing down our rollout dramatically (Plus we keep importing new data every 2-3 weeks to keep the new forum up-to-speed with the old one, trying to go for a seemless rollout)

If anyone knows any ways to speed the process along, would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
 
Empire

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Tails said:
Oh, in any case, we're far too along the road we've taken to backtrack to Vbulletin 4 or any other software.
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Wow 6 miilliom posts. Are ur members happy with migration? How active is ur foruM?
 
ethan

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ozzy47 said:
It's ok, but it's not a wise move for a forum of that size, as they would havecto migrate again quilt him a year or two.

As far as the slow process, maybe IPSLindy can give you a idea.
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Yeah, I was about to tag IPSLindy myself after remebering he frequents here.


We've actually been on VBulletin 3 in some form for probably over 10 years at this point, we're contempt with sitting around for a while on whatever forum software we choose.
 
Ryan Ashbrook

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I would recommend sending a support request so we can take a look - 6% after a few days is not normal, so I would like to see where the bottleneck is.
 
ethan

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Ryan Ashbrook said:
I would recommend sending a support request so we can take a look - 6% after a few days is not normal, so I would like to see where the bottleneck is.
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Just filed, specifically mentioned you in the ticket.
 
Danielx64

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Just getting it out there, I am sure that it taken one large forum a week or two to upgrade from IPB3.4 to IPB4. Also is this on a deli server or VPS?
 
ethan

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Danielx64 said:
Just getting it out there, I am sure that it taken one large forum a week or two to upgrade from IPB3.4 to IPB4. Also is this on a deli server or VPS?
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It's on a VPS but the VPS is on our own hardware in a COLO (we have multiple dedis that's our own hardware in a colo)

We have the hardware if it's needed but it really shouldn't be.
 
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3CoffeeCups

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Tails said:
It's on a VPS but the VPS is on our own hardware in a COLO (we have multiple dedis that's our own hardware in a colo)

We have the hardware if it's needed but it really shouldn't be.
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Something to consider. I guess you have the hardware covered but take a peek on how the data is cached and also tuning up the database if you are using Mysql. There is a control in admin for cache (keeping and eye on memory requirements also), and one of those mysql tuning programs can be helpful, installed via command line.

Good luck
 
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