Posting issues...

[Varjak]

Has anyone else been experiencing a delay in posting on BH? It actually started for me last week; but I thought I'd let it go a bit and see what happens. It's still going. When I post, the 'circling icon,' spins for about 30 seconds. I was wondering if this was just happening to me, or whether this was the site. It HAS happened in the past, when others seemed to have the same experience.

[holvoetn]

Same here.
Also when opening a link it can take a while the past days (not always but most of the time).

I'll alert the A-team

[lelisa13p]

Could be related to the Search problems that have returned today. (Andrew's explanation of possible cause is in that thread.)

[holvoetn]

That might indeed explain it.
Link here for those interested

[lelisa13p]

Thanks for linking, H. I knew that I forgot something...

[Andrew]

If people continue to see issues with posting (30 second times to post is NOT normal) then please reply to this thread, I'll keep an eye.

[r0k]

Thanks for the link, H.

I've gotten a bit frustrated with bh searching at times and I wonder if I could have found it without the link. My most common use of search is "today's posts" but I have found that if I search for something specific it eludes me. I'll give it another try now that Andrew's gone back to the "old" "new" search engine.

I'm curious... Does the engine require a cron job to run to keep it updated? If it slows down the server, can the indexing cron job be run on a different box over nfs? Can the cron job interval be increased? I don't think I'd mind if posts made since the last time the cron job ran (1 hour? 1 day?) were not indexed as long as everything that is a day or so old or older was indexed. A disclaimer on the search page that gives the time cron was most recently run should clear up any confusion about why new things aren't yet searchable.