https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16236





--- Comment #6 from Gurch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  2008-11-15 02:45:52 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> This is likely due to the way results are fetched on the backend. Results are
> fetched in a single thread, in a linear way from many index parts, so for 
> large
> queries time accumulates for just more than 3 seconds, which is the default
> timeout in MWSearch. Possible solution would be:
> 1) increase timeout in MWSearch Http::get call to e.g. 6 seconds - obviously
> this would produce longer waiting times for the user
> 2) fetch results on the backend in parallel - this would produce additional
> synchronization and slow down typical queries, possibly bogging down searchers
> with syncrhonization
> 

I'm not too bothered about the actual queries timing out, just the way it's
presented to the user. A "search timed out" error message would be fine, just
something other than giving the impression there are no results for the query.


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