[ALanJay]

Originally Posted by mute

We're rolling out our sphinx search when we upgrade our site to 3.6.2 on thursday. I'm hopeful that it will live up to my testing, but I am a tad worried that the "find posts by user" searches will be a bit pokey. I'm don't think it warrants a lot of concern given how often that particular type of search is actually done though..

Just to make clear that "find posts by user" is fine and works very fast it is "Find THREADS STARTED by user" that is solw (still uses the internal code in vB - I think from the comments made).

Overall we have been using sphinx search now for nearly a week and it seems to work very nicely, the DELTA file is generated every 5 mintes with the full file being rebuilt each night in the early hours of the morning. Our vB main data file is around 4Gb in size (Threads: 467,561, Posts: 11,271,241, Members: 173,321).

We have disabled the "Find Threads STARTED by user" option for non admin users from the search options as a temporary measure - I'm not sure anyone used it in anycase.

Obviously in an ideal world it would be nice if this was searchable but it isn't a deal breaker.