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jmpoure wrote: 3) Make sure that Apache/Php do not fork too much.
I configured 24 Mb in Php.ini and set sessions to 300 seconds.
After 5 minutes of inactivity, sessions are freed.

How "expensive" is forking ? i mean how much memory per fork, how much does it slow down, how many forks per user?

That doesn't even sound like a huge board yet ;-) Sphinx would work for you nonetheless. Why would you post MySQL system variables? I think what caused my problem was the way my particular board uses searches. it's a gardening forum and in some parts it's a bit like an encyclopedia. I thought syste...

There's also Sphinx for phpBB available now which is suited for really big boards and should be performing very well. Right now you need to check it out from subversion, packages with instructions will follow shortly. cool, thanks for the tip. I'm expecting to reach 1000 registered users with up to...

Some tricks: 1) Avoid page gzip compression. For some strange reason, it was default on my configuration. 2) Avoid any SWAP. SWAP can reduce the overall performance by a large factor. 3) Make sure that Apache/Php do not fork too much. I configured 24 Mb in Php.ini and set sessions to 300 seconds. A...