[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by josiespencer

Andrew, help! Is there any way to disable LDM searches by my users?

My site is getting banned for excessive CPU use due to this type of a GET: /forums/local_links.php?action=jump&id=3370&catid=1 HTTP/1.1.

Is it really searches that are the problem?

That GET request is the request to download a document. It gets very cpu intensive, mainly because of the way (I think) you have set up the entries in your database - you're using full urls to point to the documents. The php code needed to access files in this way is expensive to execute - this is covered at length in the on line manual - even if the documents are actually on the same physical computer.

By far the best/cheapest way to handle the documents while making sure that the source is kept private is as follows:

- Use local_file_root and local_file_root_prefix to store documents on the same server but outside the web site directory structure
- Use local file names in the entries, not urls.

This can make 100 - 1000 fold improvement in cpu use.

If it's really searches that are causing the problem, I'll see how to help.