Search (powered by SphinxSearch)

Search is powered by Sphinx. It allows us to do very fast full-text search and avoid hitting the mysql databases or polluting them with search-related data.

Production

Production at peak load based on log analysis done in 2009 suggests that we serve 10q/s.

Sphinx is served from two load balanced nodes that also serve sphinx for preview and SUMO.

Testing

Testing of Sphinx can be remarkably slower since Sphinx needs to populate tables and truncate tables for each test. If you are trying to run a quick test you can always omit Sphinx:

./manage.py test -a\!sphinx

Addon criteria for being indexed

Sphinx tries to index all valid addons. The query in configs/sphinx/sphinx.conf looks for addons that meet the following criteria:

• A name needs to be set for the default locale. E.g. if your default locale is fr there should be a corresponding translation for the name in fr.
• Only (non default) translations of an addon that have either a description or summary set will be indexed. E.g. if your addon has en-US as a default locale, the fr locale won’t be indexed if you haven’t set a description or a summary.