Delivered-To: listarch-cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com From: Christopher Faylor Message-ID: <19990216191925.D15986@cygnus.com> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 19:19:25 -0500 To: Steve Morris Cc: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com, cygwin users , Jason Molenda Subject: Re: Cygnus References: <19990215171038 DOT 24284 DOT rocketmail AT send105 DOT yahoomail DOT com> <19990216003738 DOT A12301 AT cygnus DOT com> <199902161813 DOT NAA05165 AT brocade DOT nexen DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93i In-Reply-To: <199902161813.NAA05165@brocade.nexen.com>; from Steve Morris on Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 01:13:21PM -0500 On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 01:13:21PM -0500, Steve Morris wrote: > >Christopher Faylor writes: > > On Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 09:10:38AM -0800, Earnie Boyd wrote: > > >---Steve Morris wrote: > > >> I also find the archive search engine unreliable. Maybe I am unlucky > > >> but of the last three times I tried to do a search the search engine > > >> was down for two of them, and for days. It was down this weekend. > > > > > >I've not searched anything recently so I can't speak to this. > > >Christopher? Geoff? > > > > Searching the archives works fine for me. > >What I thought was not working was slower than expected performance, >sometimes so slow that the browser times out waiting. If I am patient >and try enough times I eventually get results. As an example I >searched for CVS. I got the first of ten pages of results and then >pressed the icon for the second page. I got a response after 45 >seconds. Some other pages responded in less than 10 seconds. When I >started searching on Saturday I was unlucky and got the browser >timeout the first time. After that I assumed that a long delay ment >that it was going to fail again and impatiently terminated the search >before getting a result. Ah... Details. Well, actual details beyond "it isn't working" are something I can send to the maintainer of the archives. I've done that. cgf