ElkArte suitable for a busy, bigger community ?
April 05, 2014, 11:32:06 am
My friend runs a MyBB forum. It is somehow having problems like getting errors when the thread has some 3,000 something replies. Not to that extend but say a Windows 8 thread would be getting a lot of replies. Can ElkArte handle that kind of stuff. I believe it can but just wanted to ask officially.
Re: ElkArte suitable for a busy, bigger community ?
Reply #1 – April 05, 2014, 12:19:27 pm
There's no Elkarte forums that I know of that are big and busy. Since Elkarte is pretty close to SMF, it's safe to assume it can though. So the answer is yes.
Re: ElkArte suitable for a busy, bigger community ?
Reply #2 – April 05, 2014, 05:15:35 pm
Can't we use some sort of spam bot software and test what happens when there is a large no. of posts, threads ?
Re: ElkArte suitable for a busy, bigger community ?
Reply #3 – April 05, 2014, 06:09:43 pm
That's more an issue with pagination which your database is mostly responsible for. To be honest, you could probably overcome that in MyBB with some simple database changes. If you're using MySQL, make sure it is upgraded and query cache is enabled. If it isn't already, make sure that memcached or similar is installed and enabled. You can definitely attempt to stress test any forum, but most issues aren't from too many topics, messages, members, etc. They are issues of updating rows. In other words, simultaneous posting and accessing. In order to test that programmatically, you need to use something like Apache Bench (ab). I don't know anything about MyBB, but I know a lot about making forums more performant, especially SMF. Like I said, since Elkarte is largely based on SMF, it is safe to say that they'll run pretty close to the same. There are a ton of very large forums running SMF. Some topics have thousands of posts and run fine.
Re: ElkArte suitable for a busy, bigger community ?
Reply #5 – April 06, 2014, 01:13:15 am
I have full faith in ElkArte and the team. I was just implying that if we do such a test before or just after first stable release, it will look more professional.
Re: ElkArte suitable for a busy, bigger community ?
Reply #6 – April 06, 2014, 02:31:36 am
My largest topic is 58,236 replies (it's on my local DEV board).. no problems.