I run a large board: Threads: 1,157,249, Posts: 11,143,968, Members: 235,097. We've got 4000+ folks on just about all of the time. We're running 3.8.4 PL2 on top of mysql 5 and apache. http traffic is served from 3 webservers and I'm running a master/slave database on the backend. Currently we're using fulltext searching but I'm wondering if going back to the internal search would have any benefit. On very common searches, that I have to allow, we still get occasional lockups due to threads waiting on a table locks. I'm also kicking around the idea of switching to innodb vs isam to help there.
Would going back to vb internal searching buy me anything?
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