High load on system when doing a string search using siftplus application on RHEL5.4

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Issue

  • High load on system when doing a string search using siftplus application.
  • The issue usually happens when the users tries to search some 'bad' and extremely hard searches using the application siftplus. For example :

    find 'word* *'
    

In other words, find occurrences of the "word*" compared to every other word in the index.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4

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