Eliminate or reduce the wait for searches

[windowpane]

As the title says, sometimes I'm looking for something either get no results or have to modify my search query, can the wait time between searches be reduced to 10-15 seconds or perhaps eliminated for registered users?

[Wretched]

I agree, when a search turns up no results, and then you gotta wait for another 25 seconds.... then you think you waited long enough.... and you have one more second!

[00R/T]

We have a wait time on searches?

[DrDodge]

yes we do

[jradams350]

Yeah there is a time on searches. It is somewhat annoying when you are trying to find something and you get that wait time message.

[smc1377]

It ****in sucks monkey balls! Big Hairy Monkey Balls! Ask Bill (sowhat), he knows all about that.

[dolan]

I agree. Usually it's not a big deal but when I need to find something quick it's a PITA.

[wb6vpm]

yeah, the waittimes are there to prevent the database from being overwhelmed

[sc.intrepid]

yeah, the waittimes are there to prevent the database from being overwhelmed
from denial of service attacks right???

[Sandman]

I'm cool with a smaller wait time for searches. What I'm really annoyed about is when a search yields no results and you still have to wait 25 seconds.

I could swear I've been to other forums where if no search results were found, you can immediately search again. But if search results were found, then there was a wait time. I'd be ok with that.

[Gorm]

Its too bad there isn't an option where if a search comes up with no results that there is no time limit.

This gets me, especially when i type a word in too fast and reverse letters.

--Gorm

[Veeb0rg]

I can personally tell you, vbulletin search funtion is one of the most poorly coded thing in the world. It is insanly DB intensive. It can overwhelm a server very easily, it takes like 4x the forum activity to do what one search session can do.

[00R/T]

I can personally tell you, vbulletin search funtion is one of the most poorly coded thing in the world. It is insanly DB intensive. It can overwhelm a server very easily, it takes like 4x the forum activity to do what one search session can do.

I agree.

I too wish that I could disable the timer if no results are found. That was something that always bugged me.

[Dodgeyaussie]

Cause like 25 seconds is SUCH an eternity...

/sarcasm

[hardwareguy]

25 seconds is an ETERNITY for any modern DB server.

Even reducing the search wait time to 1s would prevent overload.