Search Function

[HipKat]

Is anyone else having issues trying to search for anything?

I scrolled down but didn't see any other threads about it

 

[navychop]

Yep. Couldn’t find a darned thing.

 

[waylew]

I just searched "toss your cookies" and my OP and other references all came up.So, working for me.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

It was an issue with the search engine. I had to restart it again and all is fine again.

 

[primestar31]

It was an issue with the search engine. I had to restart it again and all is fine again.

It's been broken all day today for me. I even completely deleted my Satelliteguys cookie, and relogged back in, but no go.

Even trying to look at previous postings through my user profile gives me a server error

 

[harshness]

I'm getting a server error web page (not a pop-over) this morning..

 

[madmadworld]

I'm getting a server error web page (not a pop-over) this morning..

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Still that

 

[TRG]

It's been doing this on and off since the last upgrade. I think Scott said that he has to restart one of the services when this happens. It would be nice if there was a permanent fix.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Rats... I thought I fixed this yesterday. I even tested things this morning and they were still working then.

Looking at the ElasticSearch database it appears we had 4 different versions of our search. I just deleted them all and am rebuilding the index again. It appears that the database is stored in memory and we were running out of memory because of all the other junk databases. This should hopefully take care of the issue once and for all.

It will take about 2 hours for the search engine reindex to complete.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Well that was quick. All done already and now the server has 12 gig of free memory on the server instead of the 2 I saw before. Hopwfully no more out of memory errors.

 

[madmadworld]

it worked once........now not

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Arggggg..

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Back online... but I am going to jump in and work more, may switch us temporally to the build in Xenforo Search which uses the database instead of memory to store things so its a little slower.

 

[meStevo]

FYI:

Thanks for all you do Scott.

I'd use google (and suggest others learn to do that when search breaks on a site, for example: site:satelliteguys.us hd-dvd - Google Search - a google search on satguys for hd-dvd) but trying to find what I'm guessing is a pub thread so wouldn't be indexed

 

[madmadworld]

Working
thanks Scott

 

[harshness]

a google search on satguys for hd-dvd

There's a blast from the past.

Most search engines have trouble with punctuation and acronyms. In this case, it may pay dividends to search for hddvd instead.

I'm glad the default sorting isn't "relevance" as it is on some other forums.

 

[lordodogg]

Having same issue again

 

[madmadworld]

Working
thanks Scott

still working here

 

[lordodogg]

It's happening again today

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

I am seeing it is working here, and I have not touched it. And I am not seeing anything in the logs either that are out of wack.

But I do see in the forum software error log that it says the search engine was unavailable.

I may just uninstall elasticsearch and reinstall it. This one has me scratching my head. It would be great if the search engines error logs showed something... anything.