Is Search broken?
Discussion
Is this regularly happening in the early mornings?
To stop massive load on the database servers during the day we create a backup of the topics and put them in a search database, this then re-indexes the data. Looks like the re-indexing is taking longer than the period we have set for the search to move databases, so will extend the time and see if that fixes it.
To stop massive load on the database servers during the day we create a backup of the topics and put them in a search database, this then re-indexes the data. Looks like the re-indexing is taking longer than the period we have set for the search to move databases, so will extend the time and see if that fixes it.
It 'works' for me, in as much as it returns some results with no error messages.
But the results I get today are exactly the same (give or take) as yesterday, i.e. the 'is Clarkson right'* thread still doesn't appear.
So whatever changes Pete made yesterday, they don't seem to have had any effect.
* not that I'm especially interested in that thread, but for months it was the first result returned in the list (presumably it has the word 'alfa' in it more than any other thread) and now it doesn't appear at all. So although it's a dull thread, it's a handy test of whether the search is working properly. Which it still isn't.
But the results I get today are exactly the same (give or take) as yesterday, i.e. the 'is Clarkson right'* thread still doesn't appear.
So whatever changes Pete made yesterday, they don't seem to have had any effect.
* not that I'm especially interested in that thread, but for months it was the first result returned in the list (presumably it has the word 'alfa' in it more than any other thread) and now it doesn't appear at all. So although it's a dull thread, it's a handy test of whether the search is working properly. Which it still isn't.
Sure...
- Navigate to search from the Search dropdown at the top (to http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/search.asp?h=0)
- Enter "three peaks", hit "Search"
- Page says 'searching for '+ three + peaks'"
- Ends up at "Sorry, something's not quite right.
The technical team have been notified."
With a back button, which just goes back to the intermediate page, and re-tries the search, and ends up at the error page again...
(This is happening right now for me...) There is an IP commented out in the source, presumably for debug...
- Navigate to search from the Search dropdown at the top (to http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/search.asp?h=0)
- Enter "three peaks", hit "Search"
- Page says 'searching for '+ three + peaks'"
- Ends up at "Sorry, something's not quite right.
The technical team have been notified."
With a back button, which just goes back to the intermediate page, and re-tries the search, and ends up at the error page again...
(This is happening right now for me...) There is an IP commented out in the source, presumably for debug...
jamieboy said:
If I do a search for 'Alfa', the first page always shows a load of results from the P+P. If I sort them by 'most recent' it seems to work, but if I sort them by 'messages found' then it doesn't show some threads that it should, e.g. the 'is Clarkson right' thread isn't listed.
Exactly the same this morning, although I've noticed something else that might (or might not) be significant.If the word I'm searching for appears in the body of a thread, but not in the title, then I get the little '+' to expand it - that's fine. And if the word appears in the title but not in the body, then I don't get the '+' - again, that's fine.
But if the word appears in the title and in the body, I don't get the '+' - I definitely used to.
Gassing Station | Website Feedback | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff