SharePoint 2010 slow search

Question

I know this isn't a coding question but i wanted to throw it out there as the wealth of experience in the forum is high.

When we perform a search for the first time it's slow and it is fine after this.

Anyone got any ideas about why this is?

I think it's something to do with the cache being cleared out and was wondering if anyone could shed some light on how to get around this?

Thanks

Answer 1

More than likely caused by the first "hit", the server is doing a lot of background processing. This would be the same as a webpage or database query. The initial execution may be the slowest due to the volume of work it has to initially process, afterwards the data is cached.