re: forum is slow

[alfzer0]

registered so I could throw out this link for some SMF specific performance enhancements, then forgot that I couldn't post in Meta cause the new newbs rule, so I'm posting it here...

http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Performance_enhancements

some of these may help, but I imagine the bottleneck is probably closer to bare metal than the forum software

[alfzer0]

and of course, just as I post this, the response time improves greatly

[duckfeet]

lotsa people tnite

[dazoe]

I just figured the was a backup or something else running in the background. I have no idea what the server specs/setup is so that's my best guess.