Re: really slow search response times using substring

"Gustave T. Stresen-Reuter" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.htdig.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I saw that, but I was wondering if the times I was experiencing were 
unusually long or normal.

thanks!

Ted

On Apr 12, 2005, at 8:58 AM, Jim wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Gustave T. Stresen-Reuter wrote:
>
>> I'm getting really long response times (40 seconds) when the 
>> search_algorithm uses substring. I'm wondering if these response 
>> times are normal or if I've got some sort of issue that's slowing 
>> things down. Here are some statistics:
>
> This is expected to at least some degree. From the search_algorithm
> attribute documentation:
>
>  substring
>     Matches all words containing the queries as substrings. Since this
>     requires checking every word in the database, this can really slow 
> down
>     searches considerably.
>
>
> Jim
>



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