There are a few things you can do..

1) Set your UBB to create a search index per forum, and not one index for all.

Control Panel => Primary Settings => Search settings => Index File Method:

2) Archive some of the larger forums. (Rename larger forums to [name] archive, and open a new forum to resume the proper discussion in. Also set the posting permissions to No one and it will show as an archive.

4) Change the display settings to show the last 10 days or less.

Control Panel => Primary Settings => General Display settings => Default Topic View (Days)

4) When it goes gold upgrade to 6.1.0 as it address' many issues that are resulting in your high processor usage.


Hope this helps <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />