Yes. I am now on PHP 5.4.9 on both of my servers and the forums haven't had any issues with it.
On the down side, while normal forum operations are now much faster, and the server isn't pegged constantly, making posts is still excruciatingly slow. It can literally take 90 seconds for a forum post to go in, and often the operation times out. Meaning I'd have to extend the wait time past 90 seconds - and how many people are going to wait 2+ minutes for a forum post to go in?
There's got to be some way to speed up the forum posts.
The BellaOnline forum has 54,000 members, 717,000 posts, and the database is 1.12 gig. When I upgraded to the latest version of MySQL I imported the database fresh, so it's nice and clean in terms of being laid onto the hard drive. It did speed up a bit when I went to InnoDB but clearly not enough.
Other operations are fast. It's just that post insert that drags on completely.
Thoughts? Is it all about that text index?
