Wake Up Admins!!!!!

[squirtle]

Please do not disable the search function on the forums! I have no idea why anyone would ever consider doing that. Turning it off wastes resources and bandwidth because you have to make tons of requests to find what you want, and it wastes my time. This has happened before but then it was turned back on the nextday.

 

Can someone explain this illogical behavior to me?

[Cedrin]

They likely disabled hit becuase of the huge load it put on their databases. Hundreds of users searching through a forum database that consists of millions of records can bog down server very badly.

 

Considering the forums are running faster now, it looks like it worked.

 

However, the best solution would be to either upgrade the database server or get a 2nd one.

[Baker[Aus]]

I think that the search should be enabled. I find that when I ask a question, it is probarbly one that has been asked many times, and could be answered with a simple search.

[NerfYoda]

In theory it should be enabled, but if it crashes the server or makes it so slow that you might as well not even use the forums then please leave it turned off until you upgrade.

[geronimo27]

Well, in theory, if search were enabled, people could search for and join in on threads already in progress related to their issue, instead of constantly creating new threads on the same topic as hundreds before it, thus bogging down the dbs and servers substantially more.

[Cedrin]

actually the searching is probably worse then the users posting new threads.

[KnightHawk420]

Being a db guy, such a search engine that allows such a broad base search is pretty intensive on a database. This sounds like give me some more freakin power kind fix here. Then we can have the extremely usefull search engine back.