I had to temporarily disable the search page today. Here's why:

Currently searches take a very long time to process ("very long" here means greater than 15 seconds). During that time, the skins table is locked. While the skins table is locked, anything else that wants to use it has to wait. Since this site is called BlogSkins, almost every page hits that table in some way. All those pages have to wait. This makes the site slow.

I can come up with a solution to this, just not right now. So for the sake of the rest of the site, I have temporarily disabled the search page.

Update: I made a small change that may make searches take longer but will allow other things to not have to wait as long. Search is now re-enabled.