Bugzilla searches went down from "so-so" to "unusable"

[Jerry Amundson]

On 8/10/08, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt.tmp0701.nospam at arcor.de> wrote:
> On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 21:21:07 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>
>> > > > With the older bugzilla, one also encountered those time-outs when
>> > > > using machines with less than 2 GHz clock rates. With the new
>> > > > bugzilla, the requirement for processor power has increased a lot.
>> > >
>> > > Processor power in the *client*?
>> >
>> > Yes.
>>
>> It's a web interface to a database. Is the database bigger or more
>> complex than Expedia or Travelocity or Amazon? Does the interaction
>> require more complex Javascript than Google Docs? I don't get it.
>
> It's not the database size. It's the complexity of the dynamic search
> form. Multiple thousands of package names per several product versions,
> for example.

I'll venture to guess that Expedia and Travelocity and Amazon have
complex searches. ;-)
There's more to it. Non-optimized code or SQL? Hardware? OS tuning?

jerry

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