[Dontom]

For those who wish to change their preset minimum word-length:
(Standard is 4 characters)
you have to set a var in your my.cnf:
set-variable = ft_min_word_len=3


More info: http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Fulltext_Fine-tuning.html

Thanks for this great hack! Search is faster than before, so ist posting , too.
The most notably difference: Editing has a huge difference now - this caused always peaks and took very long - now its instant
(My Forums: >600.000 Posts > 12.000 Users)
Database size went from 2 GB to 1,6 GB

Tom