[ALanJay]

Originally Posted by kmike

AlanJay, what's your MySQL version? I remember dealing with a bug in MySQL 4.0.x when "find threads started by user" query didn't use the proper indexes. Repairing the thread and post tables fixed that, but after some time the problem crept back in.

We are using 4.1 version of mySQL (clients 4.1.18 to 4.1.21 and server 4.1.19).

Though I suppose the real goal is to remove this from the standard vB search and put it into a search done by sphinx (if possible) as with tables as big as ours I can understand why the results might take a little time to be returned.

Originally Posted by kmike

Update: found the same bug in the bookmarks, it appears not only 4.0.x are affected: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/bugs....iew&bugid=4159
Looks like an intermittent index loss or corruption.

Thanks will take a look.

Originally Posted by kmike

Also, FYI sphinx-0.9.7-rc1 has been released.
Another update: forgot to say that the crash bug has been fixed in RC1.

Interesting from discussions it sounds like there is quite a number of changes so I assume there might be more to upgrading than a simple rebuild once it is properly released.