# What's wrong with the Search function?

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**Created:** [March 2, 2009, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-the-search-function/487950 "2009-03-02T01:49:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-the-search-function/487950/5 "2009-03-05T05:16:11Z")

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[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=10895946&postcount=9](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=10895946&postcount=9)

> [@Ed, how long until you will advise how long it will be until the search works?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ed-how-long-until-you-will-advise-how-long-it-will-be-until-the-search-works/488014/9):
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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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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Jerry

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