# Problems after import from semi-large forum
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/problems-after-import-from-semi-large-forum/34033
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [02.Октябрь.2015 10:14:30 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problems-after-import-from-semi-large-forum/34033 "2015-10-02T10:14:30Z")
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### Author:  [@huulbaek](https://meta.discourse.org/u/huulbaek)
#### Post date: [02.Октябрь.2015 10:14:30 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problems-after-import-from-semi-large-forum/34033/1 "2015-10-02T10:14:30Z")
Continuing the discussion from [Importing from Vanilla](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-when-importing-from-vanilla/33716/3):
It took about 30 hours to import from Vanilla MySQL database. However, I have encountered a couple of issues that I hope someone could help me with.
- System reports a lot of queued jobs which stays constant at the same number - what does it even mean?
- Emails are not being sent - there are no connection attempts to the smtp server. I have another instance of Discourse running with exact same SMTP setup where it is working. SMTP testet ok on host via telnet. Can this be related to queued jobs?
- A lot of topics are without category - may be related to first problem?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [02.Октябрь.2015 12:02:21 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problems-after-import-from-semi-large-forum/34033/3 "2015-10-02T12:02:21Z")
How many topics / posts / categories / users are you importing?
Topics that are missing categories are going to stay with missing categories, sounds like you have missing mapping somewhere.
I would not expect any emails to come through before the job queue clears, may take quite a few hours.
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### Author:  [@huulbaek](https://meta.discourse.org/u/huulbaek)
#### Post date: [02.Октябрь.2015 13:24:25 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problems-after-import-from-semi-large-forum/34033/4 "2015-10-02T13:24:25Z")
> [@sam](#):
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> How many topics / posts / categories / users are you importing?
About 28.000 users - that was fast import, categories likewise. .I think it was 575.000 posts. Everything seems right in the MySQL database.
> [@sam](#):
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> I would not expect any emails to come through before the job queue clears, may take quite a few hours.
The number is now 1.579.987 - so it seems to be going up if anything? 😱
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [02.Октябрь.2015 19:11:38 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problems-after-import-from-semi-large-forum/34033/5 "2015-10-02T19:11:38Z")
> [@huulbaek](#):
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> or you may need to add more Sidekiq workers.
This is what you want to do - change the app.yml to launch more Sidekiq workers to process all the work from the import, until that’s all done.
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### Author:  [@huulbaek](https://meta.discourse.org/u/huulbaek)
#### Post date: [09.Октябрь.2015 16:51:00 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problems-after-import-from-semi-large-forum/34033/6 "2015-10-09T16:51:00Z")
It eventually worked, increasing the workers. However, it still took more than 48 hours on a DigitalOcean 16GB droplet. But thanks! 😄
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [08.Июнь.2024 12:46:05 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problems-after-import-from-semi-large-forum/34033/7 "2024-06-08T12:46:05Z")
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