Search Very Slow (3 minute response)

[Rumzzz 55]

@Lukeplease tell me this is close to being fixed for testing

[blinky 3]

Really hope a fix is coming soon, it's making things really frustrating when users search and it just locks up and affects everyone else. Having to disable search is kind of a really big negative.

 

As much as I like and prefer emby and have no issue paying a monthly premier fee, there will come a time/limit of patience before I start moving users over to jellyfin or something else where search actually works, I can't be the only one this frustrates so much.

[Napsterbater 37]

On 7/9/2026 at 3:37 PM, Rumzzz said:

@Lukeplease tell me this is close to being fixed for testing

Best they can do is

On 5/10/2026 at 1:41 PM, Luke said:

Hi, we are looking into improving this. Thanks.

 

[Lutzif3r 0]

Must be an old issue, since I have a folder with 23000 porn videos and when I search for a porn name the videos start appearing in less than a second. I was always amazed on how fast searches are in Emby.

[speechles 2098]

1 hour ago, Lutzif3r said:

Must be an old issue, since I have a folder with 23000 porn videos and when I search for a porn name the videos start appearing in less than a second. I was always amazed on how fast searches are in Emby.

How large is the entire library and is your search being done globally?

I am guessing your comment is from a different point of view. You aren't holding hundreds of thousands and possibly millions of different items in different music, photo, and video libraries. Not to mention the actors in those, the studios, the genres, the everything.

Having a meager collection of 23,000 things is different than millions of things. What is the size of your library.db? I am suspecting it isn't anywhere near 4GB. Once it gets a certain size the search is problematic.

Edited 45 minutes ago by speechles