I hope this is resolved very soon too.

Just to give a little more info that I hope helps track the problem down.

It's definitely MySQL-related. I admin the server where I recently installed Fireboard and migrated a medium sized SMF board across (via Joomlaboard-Fireboard route) and Fireboard killed the server - it was the mysqld process that was going into orbit. It generated no errors, and there were no php errors in the logs either. And I also tried the fixes that I've read in this thread too.

Sorry I can't be more specific (I'm writing this after the event) but I'm adding the above to help (even if only a little).

Ste_

Just to say that on my site www.wikivorce.com: 400 users 200 posts

Turning off all the stats made a big improvement!

Should get me by until performance improvements appear in stable release.

speed improvements are already implemented in svn (and nightly build)

My board is also painfully slow, but I didn't want to upgrade to these changes in case it is not stable. Where the slow down looks to be in the DB am I just able to run the SQL upgrades or are they tied to some changes in the code and I would have to upgrade everything to see the benefits.

Let me know your thoughts as I know my users are getting tired of the slow, slow forum!

then just disable stats plugin by renaming the directory

Stats-Plugin? Where I found this directory?

MikeMH wrote:
Stats-Plugin? Where I found this directory?

Fireboard Control Panel -->Fireboard Configuration --> Plugin Tab -->Stats Plugin Settings -->Show Stats :NO

joomlaroot>components>com_fireboard>template>default>plugin>stats

is joomla caching used in this component ?

tnx

btw. everybody should upgrade to 1.o.3