Gizmo -
I do have those turned on; I was testing to see if I could tune the forum to be quick enough and still have those showing. I was successful - the forums are now zipping along at a quick speed even with those showing.
I'm also pleased to report that changing the flush_log setting stopped the deadlocking. I am no longer getting hangs on posts. It's a day later and all my forums are working quite smoothly.
So the end status, at least for now, is that I have 2 gig RAM and my forums are in gorgeous shape. The draw time on all view pages is the fastest it's ever been. They're faster than my "normal" web pages are. The posting speed is quite fine. So I feel I've proven that 2 gig RAM and IIS is perfectly fine for forums with 54,000 members and 718,000 posts. It's all about the tuning and upgrading
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