Looks like the conversion hangs around 13,000 replies …. I have about 20,000 more to go. It definitely slows down near the end.
If it hangs and appears that nothing is progressing, click ‘stop’, wait a minute to give your webhost a moment to finish anything it might be doing, click ‘start’ and it should resume from where it left off. Take note of the step and count of where it was up to so after importing you can check that for example all replies between 13,400 & 13,499 have indeed been imported.
However, the posts that do end up getting converted look beautiful.
Cool, took a while to get to this point but quite satisfied with the results.
My only guess is the scrubbing process is taking a lot more resources than before this beta version? Any insights would be much appreciated
There have been no changes to the actual converter, only the importer. Granted that the import now imports more phpBB fields than it did previously but this should make only a small increase to the SQL query performance.
As each topic or reply is imported it is parsed with ~30 regex strings to convert the BBCodes, I haven’t done any benchmarks but presumably this has some impact.
My base phpBB database import I have used for the past 6 months to test with is around ~6000 topics and 30,000 replies and I haven’t really noticed much of an impact during what I would say has been ~100 imports.
Also, I’ve noticed that there seems to be only two levels of hiearchy that gets converted … Categories and 1 level of forums below that. Nested forums within forums in phpbb don’t get pulled in? It’s okay for me either way because i’ll modify my forum structure before importing them.
That should work fine, I tested things to a depth of 4 with a forums hierarchy based on the ‘‘nested set model’.
