Search Very Slow (3 minute response)

[Rumzzz 33]

Hi @LukeAny progress updates for this issue?

This has really been negatively affecting my users, as a hung search for any user causes slowdowns for the entire server.

[Chillout 113]

Stable Server version 4.9.3.0 fixed the slow search for me. 

 

[slicedmass 6]

Agreed, issue is fixed for me too.

[Rumzzz 33]

I updated to 4.9.3.0. I think the multi-word issue seems resolved but there are still a few cases where searching takes minutes long (seems to be smaller word searches)

Searches that came back within 10 seconds: Ice Cube, Kanye West, Kid Cudi, Andy Clausen

Searches that take minutes to load: The Creator, Leon, War, don, tyler, mark

 

[Chillout 113]

@Rumzzz

You are right, there are still some searches that activates Emby server CPU meltdown command.

 

[Rumzzz 33]

@Lukejust wondering if this is still being looked into? I am still getting lots of hung searches and server lock-ups

[Luke 42288]

On 2/1/2026 at 9:29 PM, Rumzzz said:

@Lukejust wondering if this is still being looked into? I am still getting lots of hung searches and server lock-ups

Hi, yes we are still looking at it. Thanks.

[kingom 6]

Just found this thread, only want to say i'm experiencing the same problems since some weeks

[milindmody 2]

I have updated to 4.9.3.0 and this issue is still there for me. Any single word searches are fine but as soon as I have two or more words it takes 45 seconds to 1 minute to run a search. It's extremely frustrating. I preferred the older search. And I would still request an advanced search option based on IMDB # . 

Any guidance of time frame to get this fixed would be appreciated. 

[Luke 42288]

On 2/12/2026 at 4:09 AM, milindmody said:

I have updated to 4.9.3.0 and this issue is still there for me. Any single word searches are fine but as soon as I have two or more words it takes 45 seconds to 1 minute to run a search. It's extremely frustrating. I preferred the older search. And I would still request an advanced search option based on IMDB # . 

Any guidance of time frame to get this fixed would be appreciated. 

HI, we are working on improving this. Thanks.

[Rumzzz 33]

I will definitely be moving to the beta channel the instant this fix is out to test thoroughly.

[Rumzzz 33]

Installed version 4.10.0.7 beta just to see if the sqlite updates would help, sadly searching is still sporadically unreliable.

Still looking forward to a fix, hopefully soon.

Edited March 29 by Rumzzz

[HandsGroober 0]

Any update on this? A couple of short concurrent searches are enough to lock up the server entirely. 

[visproduction 338]

Would a built in delay to the search function help?  Typically, fixing a complex search is done on the server side where the product owner can distribute the demand to multiple servers. When the server is local to the admin, then fixing complex searches with more server bandwidth can be recommended, but won't help for admins that don't upgrade hardware.   So, maybe a built in delay to force complex searches to be more friendly, could limit the demand on the server to be more friendly.  This doesn't make complex searches work any faster, but perhaps would keep the server from locking up. Or throttle down (raise the LInux nice setting) search priority and just offer a text update "... Searching now through all the libraries..."   Just an idea.

 https://duckduckgo.com/?q=SQL+lokup+searches+with+delay+using+.js+script&ia=web
For Linux: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/linux-unix/nice-and-renice-command-in-linux-with-examples/

Edited 1 hour ago by visproduction