Originally Posted by Kuk
On the subject of auctioneer: what kind of server load does scanning the AH like that create? I seem to recall being told that scanners like auctioneer were responsible for a lot of the AH lag that was prevalent a year or so ago. Is there any truth to this?
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The fairly large delay between searches and page changes is there because AH scanning was killing the server without it. Even with the delay it's pretty hard on the server, so in 2.3 they're adding a function which returns a complete dump of the AH.