# Really weird search error

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-weird-search-error/470892>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [November 3, 2008, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-weird-search-error/470892 "2008-11-03T17:40:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-weird-search-error/470892/1 "2008-11-03T17:40:00Z")

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Got this a few times now:

> [@boards.straightdope.com](#):
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> Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 71 bytes) in /home/straightdope/boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/search.php on line 1151

A few things of note:

- There’s info about how the board is set up to run that a friend tells me could be used to hack in.
- The 71 bytes that broke the search function’s back? (And 134 meg is exhausted?)
- Hi, Opal!

ETA: Sorry, this isn’t a question, just wanted to report that I was having this little problem, and not to nag or anything.

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**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-weird-search-error/470892/2 "2008-11-03T18:37:28Z")

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Probably the hampster does not like one of the words that you are serching for. For example the word World is too socialist for the Boards to permit searching for.

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**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-weird-search-error/470892/3 "2008-11-03T19:32:28Z")

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Thanks. I see your thread about the same issue now.

My search term was ‘game theory’ - I wonder if that was considered socialist too?

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**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2008, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-weird-search-error/470892/4 "2008-11-03T22:02:29Z")

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Look like it was socialist. game was not socialist, and theory was not socialist, but game theory was socialist.