Import Slowing Down

[sdotson]

I'm doing a test import of my old PHPBB2 board. I have about 42,000 posts. It zipped right through the first 15,000 in about 3 mins but now each 2000 imports are taking 2-3 mins.

It is on a hosted server but the server load does not appear to be going up. Is this normal?

[Colin F]

I've experienced that as well, I always assumed it was either the server load, or that the memory wasn't freeing up correctly.

[Jerry]

It's memory and MySQL caches, best to raise the PHP memory limit and do as much as you can as quick as you can, i.e. raise the PHP to 128MB do 10,000 post per page.