Global search is slow. Search latency sits at ~30 seconds. Historically, identical queries completed within 1–4 seconds. Root cause unclear, maybe hardware problems.

Performance appears to have returned to normal without code changes.

• [X] Compare CD with prod wrt latency. See if hardware is really the problem.
• [X] Check out query plans and execution paths for global search (xapian delve, fall-back sql, weaved in gnqna)
• [-] Doc performance.

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Related:

• https://issues.genenetwork.org/issues/CI-CD/profiling-flask

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