searching the mailing list archives

[Neil Williams]

On Monday 27 December 2004 2:20 pm, Chris Shoemaker wrote:
> Right now, it seems that I can only search up to 10 months of
> gnucash-devel mailing list archive at once.  How hard would it be to
> allow the user to search all available months at one go?

There are an enormous number of files to search and the reason it's paged in 
that way is to reduce the number of timeouts on the server.

It's not a simple matter of extending the search once an archive has been 
searched, the number of files is assessed first to determine the paging 
interval. That alone makes it impractical to go back more than 10 archives.

Extending to 12 may be possible but nothing beyond that - it was all tested 
during development. Anything more than 12 gave a timeout about 1 time in 3. 
That simply isn't acceptable. I took the decision to limit to 10 - moving to 
12 is not worth the increased timeouts.

In short, it is beyond the limits of the server timeout.

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