I have about 4500 and had to resort to some caching hacks for acceptable performance. Using 4.7 Jeremy Epstein wrote:
Hi Karoly,
I doubt that you will find anyone with more than ten thousand custom menu items on a live site. The 4.5-5.x menu system simply doesn't scale to that level. Every page times out and gives a white screen of death.
I don't have more than 1,000 category_menu generated menu items on any of my sites. Sorry. If there's anyone who does, then of course, feel free to prove me wrong, and to provide Karoly with your menu database table.
Cheers, Jaza.
On 4/27/07, Karoly Negyesi <karoly@negyesi.net> wrote:
Hi,
If you have at least ten thousand menu items, please dump and (g)zip the menu table and mail me the URL (not the table itself).
I have some changes which would allow the new menu system to handle such monsters quickly. However, I would like to test on real world test tables.
Regards,
NK