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Subject:	Re: News search function temporarily disabled
Newsgroups:	lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek
Date:	Sun, 17 Dec 2000 01:26:09 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes: > > As a first step, I've turned off the text-search function for news. I > apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, but it will help me know > how much of a bottleneck it was causing. Its algorithm for merging results > is grossly inadequate for some of the queries it processes. Hi Todd, Did you ever consider a google search box? Like this one: www.sis.pitt.edu/~dist I don't know for sure, but I think that the search is done on google's server. Toki

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		Re: News search function temporarily disabled
(...) That's an intriguing thought. It looks like it requires Google to be able to crawl a site completely, though. I wonder if they play well with dynamically generated content... (...) Yes, it is. --Todd (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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		News search function temporarily disabled
The system crashed again. Either it's running out of memory and that's causing a downward spiral or it's running out of CPU cycles and starving enough processes to build up and cause a meltdown. Either way some tuning needs to be done. This is going (...) (24 years ago, 11-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.announce) !

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