Search Speed Improved

jeremy · 09-07-2005, 07:04 PM

We've taken a couple steps to improve the speed of the search until a more permanent solution can be implemented. If you notice any problems, let us know. Thanks.

--jeremy

tomj88 · 09-07-2005, 08:17 PM

Thanks! I did notice the search used to be very slow, so well done!

ctkroeker · 09-08-2005, 05:09 PM

Great!

May I ask what you did to improve it?

jeremy · 09-08-2005, 06:22 PM

We temporarily leased an additional machine an offloaded search to that.

--jeremy

Matir · 09-11-2005, 12:34 PM

Wow. I would've thought that most of the search load would be on the database server.

jeremy · 09-12-2005, 08:48 AM

We've had a dedicated search server for quite some time now. The server finally died recently.

--jeremy

Matir · 09-12-2005, 10:38 AM

AH. Out of curiousity, do they both work against the same database backend, or is the database replicated somehow? Perhaps the search algorithm is more complex than I would've thought.

jeremy · 09-12-2005, 12:26 PM

We use replication to get content to the search server.

--jeremy

Matir · 09-12-2005, 12:55 PM

Thanks for the info jeremy. I'm sure my questions about the running of LQ must get annoyingly time consuming after a while.

jeremy · 09-12-2005, 02:07 PM

nope

--jeremy

Matir · 09-12-2005, 03:16 PM

Well, I'm glad you don't think so. I'm just one of those people who likes to know how everything he uses works.