possible search crash.../home/httpd/linuxquestions/questions/search.php
 

Hi

I was trying to search an old post as my memory remembered certain words.

I mention those words in case others can reproduce

/dev/null /etc/passwd intruder less info or information.

1) In searching I decided to limit searches to security forum and chose relevancy

2) Sometimes I got some hits and other times I got a blank screen is firefox.

I really do mean blank...firefox menu at top and a white screen below just like when you do a posting.
No sidebars etc

3) This did not concern me, initially I just tried different permutations and then I got this

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 24 bytes) in /home/httpd/linuxquestions/questions/search.php on line 1526

I know that LQ has sped up the time you can repeat searches and I was doing them fairly quickly...but I never got an message saying wait x seconds.

Let me know if you need more info

cheerio

Thanks for reporting.
LQ has had some problems but as far as I know they've been fixed that day.
If this happens again please post a new thread.

HI

I search again, not a crash this time but a repeatable event. If I search just security section I get results but they do not include all keywords

/dev/null /etc/passwd intruder

where I have selected relevancy and in descending order.
So IMHO I should find the top post has all 3 terms? but I get 12 pages of not so.

2) Fair enough so I select all forums...and get this result
http://h1.ripway.com/aus9/search.png

It is a blank screen below title bar icons and tabs.


3) When I changed from relevancy search to thread date, I finally get this feedback post, the one we are viewing, at the top. And a list of hits. (not the one I am looking for but that is not the issue) I am thinking there is something amiss with relevancy??

4) Thinking that I might be right on this I changed the search keywords to

/dev/null /bin/false ...all forums....relevancy and a fresh blank screen as per link

but if I reduce it to one forum I get hits.

Therefore AFAIK, the search crashes if you choose RELEVANCY and ALL FORUMS

Further confirmation (IMHO) was keyword /dev/null....type of search relevancy and all forums....the now familar blank screen.



Let me know if you need more info?

cheerio

Thanks for the feedback. I'm doing some research into this issue now.

--jeremy