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What hardware configuration makes it practical to move UBB.threads past the "800-1000 users online" level to something say 5x that and perhaps even beyond. Is there an understood and documented way to get this performance?

I am open minded about configuration: big SMP server, many smaller machines, solid state disk, etc. (Presently have 30k members, 40k posts, and 800 users online in 10min window at peak on 2x AMD64 w/2GB RAM.)

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Thanks

Stan

Well, for 5000 concurrent users you'd need several database and webservers to load balance the incoming requests. The number of the machines depends on the ubbthreads version you're running, the hardware, used os and the configuration of the machines.

Coming up with a good clustering system, you should be able to plugin new machines very easily, if necessary.

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That is te answer I wanted to hear. Any consulting experts on constructing such a system? (Someone who has actually done it at Groupee/InfoPop or elsewhere...)

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The biggest problem you're going to have is with table locks, especially in the members table. If you haven't done so already, switch from MyISAM to InnoDB, which should help a bit.

Threads can be properly served in a clustered environment, but it's only written to think about talking to one database server, and that's where your bottleneck is going to be anyway. Configuring any sort of MySQL cluster is beyond my personal experience, however you might have some luck looking at MySQL's new "MySQL Cluster" product.

There are also some other options available, and I'll write you in a private message for those. <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />