I’ve been getting variants of these errors whenever I try to search today:
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 536870912 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 9 bytes) in /home/straightdope/boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/search.php on line 1007
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 536870912 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 24 bytes) in /home/straightdope/boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/includes/class_core.php on line 3278
What were you searching for, and did you use any words like “the” or “a”?
No, nothing that short - I’d have expected the system to kick those out anyway.
Might have been something like apple thief or white machine.
At this point, I don’t recall exactly what I was searching for, but I was able to find what I was after on Google with a site:boards.straightdope.com term1 term2 search.
Now that I think of it, would it be possible to give our beloved hamsters a bit of a rest and change the board search to generate a Google search instead of searching the message base directly?
Reported.
Jenny