Well, ask Ask if you want the whole truth. But when I saked him that's what he said. Maybe there's a problem with the architecture and some pre-indexing is done per session or something suboptimal like that. Ask?
~~~~~~~~~~~ Nick Tonkin On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Robert Landrum wrote: > Sure... When doing searches. But it takes me about 20 seconds just to > hit any page... not just the search pages. > > And don't misunderstand, I think search.cpan.org is awesome. I just > wondered if anyone knew why it was slow all the time. > > Rob > > > At 12:55 PM -0800 11/27/01, Nick Tonkin wrote: > >Because it does a full text search of all the contents of the DB. > > > > > >~~~~~~~~~~~ > >Nick Tonkin > > > >On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Robert Landrum wrote: > > > >> Does anyone know why search.cpan.org is always the s-l-o-w-e-s-t site > >> on the internet? I can't believe it always busy. I've had trouble > >> hitting it at 3 AM. > >> > >> Maybe it's just me... > >> > >> > >> Rob > >> > >> -- > >> "Only two things are infinite: The universe, and human stupidity. > >>And I'm not > >> sure about the former." --Albert Einstein > >> > > > > > -- > "Only two things are infinite: The universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not > sure about the former." --Albert Einstein >