# Ed, how long until you will advise how long it will be until the search works?

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**Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-how-long-until-you-will-advise-how-long-it-will-be-until-the-search-works/488014/9 "2009-03-02T23:07:45Z")

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These fatal errors are due to searches which are so broad in scope they exhaust the 128M of memory allocated to a search process:

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> Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 9 bytes) in /home/straightdope/boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/search.php on line 1007

I’m not sure I want to “fix” these errors since the fix is allocating even more memory to a search process. Doing so has downsides for the performance the rest of the board users will receive while these broad searches are running.

I’ll weigh off the pros and cons of increasing the amount of memory allocated with the hardware host and then make a decision as to how to proceed.

Jerry

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