We've been working on that for some time. It isn't a simple problem.

Why o why monks did you take away my beloved, but often cursed, super search?
because it made the site unstable. A single search with an unfortunate choice of criteria could lock up the site for minutes. This is related to the move to pair.com which resulted in mysqld being more sensitive to long-running queries that don't monopolize resources but (under FreeBSD) somehow interferes with other queries.

Much, perhaps all, of the site slow downs and lock ups were probably due to the old super search.

        - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")

In reply to (tye)Re: Bring Back the Old Supersearch by tye
in thread Bring Back the Old Supersearch by dru145

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