Limit search matches

Kurtson · Post by **Kurtson** » 2004-10-16 12:19

Sitting here watching as the number of search-matches passes a 10.000 it strikes me that maybe it would be a good idea to limit the number of possible matches to a search to say a couple of thousands?

I know a should have narrowed my search but now that i made that mistake it is'nt all that fun watching as the program hangs up until it has found all 30.000 or so matches.

Anyone agree?

unruled · Post by **unruled** » 2004-10-16 14:03

well, if there was simply a little field where you could write the maximum number of matches that would be great yeah. Not a global limit; just a limit where u can specify per search, just like there is the maximum size thing and such.

ivulfusbar · Post by **ivulfusbar** » 2004-10-16 15:48

You have to learn howto search. The protocol do not make it possible to limit number of searches. All that can be done is to limit displayed answers on the client-side, i.e. to throw away searches and not showing them in the UI.

Ofcourse you can play with it.. but hey.. You might like the changelog for whats comming in future versions.

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* Added local filtering of searches with "-" in front of the search term (thanks
 cologic)

Not what you ask for but can be used to display less search replies.

Kurtson · Post by **Kurtson** » 2004-10-16 16:04

Okay, if that is the case then there's not much to do i guess.. i'll have to make do of what's possible.. But the changelog looked good =).
Thanks for your reply.

Kurtson · Post by **Kurtson** » 2004-10-17 13:26

Just one question.. you wrote:

"All that can be done is to limit displayed answers on the client-side, i.e. to throw away searches and not showing them in the UI. "

Would the limit of displays in the U.I. solve the problem of the client hanging up or would the client still need too use as much cpu-percent-usage-wathever as before.

If the later isn't the case, then wouldn't it be a good idea to limit the number of displayed matches in the U.I?

ivulfusbar · Post by **ivulfusbar** » 2004-10-17 13:44

Its more complicated than that.