Bug: Search times out on v0.7.2 installed on Synology using Portainer

[MyNameIsOka]

Describe the bug

Searching doesn't work. No matter, what I search for, the page loads for some time and then displays the Synology page "Sorry, the page you are looking for is not found.".
I just noticed it now and have recently started with ArchiveBox so I don't know if it worked in the past.
I also tried it in different Browsers (Brave, Mullvad Browser, Chrome), but nothing changes.

Steps to reproduce

• installed via Portainer on Synology
• env vars

- ALLOWED_HOSTS=*
- MEDIA_MAX_SIZE=2000m
- PUID=1029
- PGID=100
- PUBLIC_INDEX=False             
- PUBLIC_SNAPSHOTS=False 
- PUBLIC_ADD_VIEW=False     
- SAVE_ARCHIVE_DOT_ORG=False
- SAVE_FAVICON=False 
- CHROME_BINARY=/usr/bin/chromium-browser

Screenshots or log output

ArchiveBox version

0.7.2
ArchiveBox v0.7.2+editable COMMIT_HASH=e888869 BUILD_TIME=2024-01-05 03:55:52 1704426952
IN_DOCKER=True IN_QEMU=False ARCH=x86_64 OS=Linux PLATFORM=Linux-4.4.302+-x86_64-with-glibc2.36 PYTHON=Cpython
FS_ATOMIC=True FS_REMOTE=True FS_USER=1029:100 FS_PERMS=644
DEBUG=False IS_TTY=True TZ=UTC SEARCH_BACKEND=ripgrep LDAP=False

[i] Dependency versions:
 √  PYTHON_BINARY         v3.11.7         valid     /usr/local/bin/python3.11                                                   
 √  SQLITE_BINARY         v2.6.0          valid     /usr/local/lib/python3.11/sqlite3/dbapi2.py                                 
 √  DJANGO_BINARY         v3.1.14         valid     /usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/django/__init__.py                  
 √  ARCHIVEBOX_BINARY     v0.7.2          valid     /usr/local/bin/archivebox                                                   

 √  CURL_BINARY           v8.5.0          valid     /usr/bin/curl                                                               
 √  WGET_BINARY           v1.21.3         valid     /usr/bin/wget                                                               
 √  NODE_BINARY           v20.10.0        valid     /usr/bin/node                                                               
 √  SINGLEFILE_BINARY     v1.1.46         valid     /app/node_modules/single-file-cli/single-file                               
 √  READABILITY_BINARY    v0.0.11         valid     /app/node_modules/readability-extractor/readability-extractor               
 √  MERCURY_BINARY        v1.0.0          valid     /app/node_modules/@postlight/parser/cli.js                                  
 √  GIT_BINARY            v2.39.2         valid     /usr/bin/git                                                                
 √  YOUTUBEDL_BINARY      v2023.12.30     valid     /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp                                                       
 √  CHROME_BINARY         v120.0.6099.28  valid     /browsers/chromium-1091/chrome-linux/chrome                                 
 √  RIPGREP_BINARY        v13.0.0         valid     /usr/bin/rg                                                                 

[i] Source-code locations:
 √  PACKAGE_DIR           23 files        valid     /app/archivebox                                                             
 √  TEMPLATES_DIR         3 files         valid     /app/archivebox/templates                                                   
 -  CUSTOM_TEMPLATES_DIR  -               disabled  None                                                                        

[i] Secrets locations:
 -  CHROME_USER_DATA_DIR  -               disabled  None                                                                        
 -  COOKIES_FILE          -               disabled  None                                                                        

[i] Data locations:
 √  OUTPUT_DIR            8 files @       valid     /data                                                                       
 √  SOURCES_DIR           101 files       valid     ./sources                                                                   
 √  LOGS_DIR              2 files         valid     ./logs                                                                      
 √  ARCHIVE_DIR           102 files       valid     ./archive                                                                   
 √  CONFIG_FILE           162.0 Bytes     valid     ./ArchiveBox.conf                                                           
 √  SQL_INDEX             872.0 KB        valid     ./index.sqlite3 

[pirate]

The default search method uses ripgrep to scan over the files on disk (with no index), which can be slow if your backing storage is slow. It works well on local SSDs (see https://demo.archivebox.io) but not on HDDs or NFS/SMB mounts.

What type of drive are you using to host your archive data? If it's an HDD or network mount, it's likely too slow to use ripgrep.

Instead, I recommend switching to the more advanced Sonic search backend which does full-text indexing and works well even with older drives, instructions are here: #956 (comment)

[MyNameIsOka]

Thanks a lot for your quick response! Yes, I am using HDDs. After defining SEARCH_BACKEND_ENGINE=sonic in the docker-compose file, search started working 👍