How come there is a 40 sec delay between searches?

gynecologist · Jul 20, 2006

Have any of you seen this message

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This forum requires that you wait 40 seconds between searches. Please try again in 32 seconds.

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Just curious as to the point of this, and why is therx the only
site that has this?

wilheim · Jul 20, 2006

To be honest I have no idea.

wil..

gynecologist · Jul 20, 2006

LOL, do you ever get that message?

TTinCO · Jul 20, 2006

Searches are "resource intensive". It's pretty safe to assume that the 40 second limit is prevent someone from maliciously doing multiple\repeated searches in an attempt to slow the site down.

FatTony · Jul 20, 2006

It weighs down on the server to keep doing searches.

Journeyman · Jul 20, 2006

that rarely happens though, atleast from my experiences... I first saw this about 2 weeks ago and never since.

antipublic · Jul 20, 2006

10 seconds should be sufficient though, thats limit on many sites

TTinCO · Jul 20, 2006

antipublic said:
10 seconds should be sufficient though, thats limit on many sites

I'll bring it up with the admin. I suspect that 40 seconds was probably some default setting during the last upgrade-I've never seen this before.

gynecologist · Jul 20, 2006

I get this message all the time when I click "New Posts" read a post
really fast then click new posts again. You can always avoid getting
this message by simply clicking the back button on your browser
but I have the tendency of doing things the hard way.