We are using AOLServer 3.4.2 on FreeBSD 4.5 and Glimpse for searching. The search engine is called with an 'exec' command from a .tcl file. While this search is being executed, AOLServer completely stops serving anything at all. After the search results are returned, everything is fine.
We can write a tcl script or a database query that nearly saturates the cpu and the web site feels ok from a browser. But a search called through exec, that takes only 10% of the CPU, will freeze the web site until the exec is done. The same happens if we use open instead of exec. Is there a problem with exec, or is there a better way to do this? Thanks for any advice, Babak
