From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steve Morris To: Christopher Faylor Cc: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com, cygwin users Subject: Re: Cygnus Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 10:13:00 -0000 Message-id: <199902161813.NAA05165@brocade.nexen.com> In-reply-to: < 19990216003738.A12301@cygnus.com > References: <19990215171038.24284.rocketmail@send105.yahoomail.com> <19990216003738.A12301@cygnus.com> <19990216003738.A12301@cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 1999-02/msg00522.html Christopher Faylor writes: > On Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 09:10:38AM -0800, Earnie Boyd wrote: > >---Steve Morris wrote: > >> I also find the archive search engine unreliable. Maybe I am unlucky > >> but of the last three times I tried to do a search the search engine > >> was down for two of them, and for days. It was down this weekend. > > > >I've not searched anything recently so I can't speak to this. > >Christopher? Geoff? > > Searching the archives works fine for me. What I thought was not working was slower than expected performance, sometimes so slow that the browser times out waiting. If I am patient and try enough times I eventually get results. As an example I searched for CVS. I got the first of ten pages of results and then pressed the icon for the second page. I got a response after 45 seconds. Some other pages responded in less than 10 seconds. When I started searching on Saturday I was unlucky and got the browser timeout the first time. After that I assumed that a long delay ment that it was going to fail again and impatiently terminated the search before getting a result. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steve Morris To: Christopher Faylor Cc: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com, cygwin users Subject: Re: Cygnus Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 23:02:00 -0000 Message-ID: <199902161813.NAA05165@brocade.nexen.com> References: <19990215171038.24284.rocketmail@send105.yahoomail.com> <19990216003738.A12301@cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 1999-02n/msg00515.html Message-ID: <19990228230200.59oQKzdINtK_zKoU-cAC81gd8jAcPB_BGvmostZD7uo@z> Christopher Faylor writes: > On Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 09:10:38AM -0800, Earnie Boyd wrote: > >---Steve Morris wrote: > >> I also find the archive search engine unreliable. Maybe I am unlucky > >> but of the last three times I tried to do a search the search engine > >> was down for two of them, and for days. It was down this weekend. > > > >I've not searched anything recently so I can't speak to this. > >Christopher? Geoff? > > Searching the archives works fine for me. What I thought was not working was slower than expected performance, sometimes so slow that the browser times out waiting. If I am patient and try enough times I eventually get results. As an example I searched for CVS. I got the first of ten pages of results and then pressed the icon for the second page. I got a response after 45 seconds. Some other pages responded in less than 10 seconds. When I started searching on Saturday I was unlucky and got the browser timeout the first time. After that I assumed that a long delay ment that it was going to fail again and impatiently terminated the search before getting a result.