<VV> 12,000th archive post and some pretty funny searches...

[Tony Underwood]

At 10:25 hours 05/15/2005, Joe West wrote:
>Hi Tony,
>
>In the case of searching the forum at virtualcorvairclub.com, the search is
>performed using the SERVER's processors and not the user's computer.  The
>time to search through roughly 13,000 posts for the word "sex" is .05
>seconds, and it doesn't matter WHAT computer you are using to perform the
>search.  The user's computer is only used to display the results (the html
>code) and is never used to actually perform the search.  Even when the
>archive hits 100,000 or so posts (or whatever the end number is), I
>seriously doubt that any searches will take more than 10 seconds... unless
>of course we have so many users on the forum that all four of the server's
>processors are working at 100% and then perhaps searches will take longer.
>
>Joe


Then again, I was referring to my pitiful slow laptop...   ;)

I have too much stuff running on it, using up all the ram.


tony..