Sphinx Search

[Rayn21]

I set the vbulletin max results to 6000 just to see what happens and I wound up with more posts, but still I am missing some. I am wondering what I am missing. It had been working for me as far as I know, it's just that the popular search terms seem to have a hidden time constraint on them ... maybe because they return so many results.

If I search for a popular search term, I'll get back maybe 300 results all from a recent time frame (about a month). If I search for a less popular search term, I'll get results going all the way back to 2000 like I should. I will have to go through and re-examine all the scripts again, but something is funny going on.

What could limit my results between the search command line and vbulletin itself ... because there are many more results returns on the command line.

If I search for a popular term like 'Kurayami' a popular poster who is mentioned often ... with 6000 max results in vB and 1200 max results in sphinx.conf ... I'll max out at 1000 results all very recent. Weird but understandable. If I search 'Rayn' ... a few results but many less than 1000 ... all within a relatively recent time frame. There should be more, the command line returns thousands of posts.

I cannot locate the source of this discrepancy.

http://www.tribalwar.com/forums/search.php