Wanna ask about phpBB 3 importer . It works fine, but I have a lot of posts on my forum. [image] And after about 60% it starts to go very slow. And it goes slower and slower. I tried this converter on test server before, it worked 4 days and I got to 74.8%. Over last night it was 0.3% progress so I…

The importer will skip posts that it already imported, so feel free to cancel it and restart it. I don’t know what causes it to gradually slow to a crawl. I added as much batch processing as I could find, but maybe I missed something…

I think it bumps into memory limit or something, RegExp is a slow thing. After I stopped importer with Ctrl+C twice and tried to run it again, it got stuck right at start. So I’ve rebooted server and re-run it - worked great. Thanks for awesome convertor, Neil. Wanna share an experience. I launched…

One idea: If it’s inserting into a table that is indexed, it probably has to hold the index in memory while inserting. Once the index is larger than available RAM, it starts paging and gets super slow. If that’s the case, try creating the table first and then indexing after the records are inserted. …

Didn’t knew I can do that. I’ll try, thanks.

I wanna report an issue. I can’t believe I didn’t saw it right at begining… :laughing: Before importing my DB to Discourse I structured phpBB in Discourse style - 1 level of sub-categories max. But some sub-categories had same names. Such as: World of Warcraft > Classes Tera > Classes And those su…

Hmm @neil we should fix this for future phpbb imports – can we embed the ID in the categories so they don’t get inappropriately mapped to duplicate names?

I’m pretty sure we do have phpbb’s id for the category, so it shouldn’t be doing that. I’ll have a look.

Yes, the importer has the ID from phpBB and it also finds the correct category, but it is currently using the category name: script/import_scripts/phpbb3.rb 519c875d8 create_posts(results, total: total_count, offset: offset) do |m| skip = false …

phpBB 3 Importer goes slow

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Maestra_Powers (Maestro Magnifico) Mars 11, 2015, 12:52 7

Lol. rake posts:rebake acts same way - it starts to slow down after like 50%. So I dropped this idea.

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