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[Bob Zumbrunnen]

The search function is still intact, but we're finding that on the current setup, we simply can't afford to have the system try to maintain the indexes (the mechanism through which posts containing keywords are found) in realtime. So I've temporarily disabled the population of those indexes and will restart them every night and shut them off every morning.

The new database server will be ordered tomorrow and while I'm waiting for it to arrive and be installed I've got a few things to work on to improve efficiency and possibly make realtime indexing possible again either by reducing other workloads on the db server, or moving the indexing/search function to SI's db server, which has plenty of capacity for it.