search engine

[Philippe Burnel]

Seems there is a problem to find topics in the forum.
When I clic on ""view new post" I get this anser "Sorry but you cannot use search at this time. Please try again in a few minutes."

[Willem Heijns]

Same here...

[Juan Artigas]

I am sorry for the inconvenience with this. In the past week the forum was under attack. This caused the database server where it is located to restart in repeated occasions, bringing down the forum and other databases hosted at the same server. My internet service provided decided to shut down our forum then. In researching the issue it became apparent that the attackers were using the search engine with automatic queries that produced near to a million rows examined each, causing the database engine to collapse (this is not google). I then limited the amount of searches that can be done in a certain amount of time and apparently that made the trick. So you as user can just make a search every ten seconds. Tell me please if this is happening with all your searches or just when you do searches repeatedly. Cheers

[Juan Artigas]

Alright, I had also limited the amount of processor power a search can use, I guess I went very low so complex searches were not being carried out, so I increased it a little bit and it seems to work much better.

[Bas Pels]

after using the search engine, and reding the above, I went back. Than I was informed I could not search now

So, obviously, the situation has not yet returned to normal

[Juan Artigas]

Well I just did a few searches and they worked. If I keep getting reports I will increase the CPU limit a bit, but not much. Oh when make searches please make sure you are logged in, guests are much more limited.

[Dan Woodland]

The search does work Juanmi but it seems to be random. For example, if I search now, log off and log back in it won't work but if I'm logged in for a few minutes the search will work.

[Juan Artigas]

Thanks Woody I will keep my eyes open on this

[Philippe Burnel]

Seems to work now.
Thanks

Philippe