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Originally Posted by eoc_Jason
Be aware that eventually even a master / slave setup will not be all that optimal for searching. It alievates the table locking issues but doesn't make searching any faster, and the more posts you have the slower searching will be. The best solution I found for searching was to switch to sphinx... the best change I ever made.
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That is true, I have also switched my larger sites over to Sphinx. That's not to say though that there still isn't a use for the master/slave setup. Quite a few queries get offloaded to the slave (about 20% on my sites) and you can run backups without having to take the site down.