Re: Wildcard searches

[David Wright <ichbin@shadlen.org>]

Check the CPU usage during the search (if it takes ~100s, top will do this
just fine). If it is pegged, then it is probably an index problem. Do you
wildcards look like attr=* or attr=a*z? If the former, be sure to
  index attr pres
If the latter, then
  index attr sub
First do this and check the search time again.

Otherwise, you may just be hitting the limits of your network. Returning
~10^5 entries of ~10^3 B each represents 10^9 b of information, which
requires ~10^2 s on a 10 Mb/s network. Upgrade your network and use a
filter string to reduce the information returned.