[seqfan] Re: Don't submit a difficult query more than once, it kills the system

[Frank Adams-Watters]

One of the things that is slow is searching where all the search terms are single digit numbers. If you know you
are looking for a decimal number, it is worthwhile to add "keyword:cons" to the search. It helps either way, but
from my quick test, it works better if you put the "keyword:cons" first. That could just be random variation: I
didn't want to do extensive testing, for obvious reasons.

Here are my results:

3.1415926 - 9.832 seconds
3.1415926 keyword:cons - 6.840 seconds
keyword:cons 3.1415926 - 6.188 seconds

Franklin T. Adams-Watters

(I thought I mailed this before, but maybe not.)


-----Original Message-----
From: Neil Sloane <njasloane at gmail.com>
To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list <seqfan at list.seqfan.eu>
Sent: Sun, Feb 21, 2016 7:11 pm
Subject: [seqfan] Don't submit a difficult query more than once, it kills the system

Dear Seq Fans,Some  queries take a while to be answered.
Queries with lots of 0's and 1's, for instance.
Or some queries that don't have commas, like this one:” 32 39 29 20 37 24 16 29 43 26” (without the quotes)
If you submit a query on the OEIS web page, and you don't get an answer right away, then *PLEASE WAIT*, 
and *don't submit it again**and again*. Each time it slows down the server, and this afternoon around
14:00 EST there were multiple submissions of one query that
essentially crashed the OEIS.

Best regardsNeilNeil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation.
11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA.
Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ.
Phone: 732 828 6098; 
home page: http://NeilSloane.com
Email: njasloane at gmail.com
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