Is there a sandbox to test in, so I don't affect performance ~~~~
Topic on Help talk:CirrusSearch
No So I am not doing a performance load test, :-) I just saw the performance issue affecting others. Have many people screwed up? I assume you have some sort of timeout - Is that a switch I can set lower? Anway I am trying to work out ways of getting what I am after some other way.
I’m not sure if I’m the right one to ask. If there is a performance issue it’s probably discussed at phabricator. Wish you the best of luck!
If you are referring to the WMF wikis, when the search system cuts off a query for performance reasons (typically it took too long to execute) that's normal and expected behaviour that shouldn't negatively impact others (assuming you aren't a bot making many parallel queries). Overall you shouldn't need to worry about it, beyond pondering how to construct a query that doesn't timeout
If you are trying to construct a query and it keeps timing out, could you could post some details of the information you are trying to retrieve? Someone might be able to point out a more efficient way to get the same information.