Some impatient users tends to click several times on the “Go” button of the search form on OPAC. Probably in a desperate hope that this will speed up the whole process.
However the result is quite opposite, as Zebra is then queried multiple times which increases the server cpu load, until it reach 100% and cause Denial of Service (boooh…)
Are you sure your users are doing that? Koha server can lag severely for other reasons...
We had the idea of disabling the “searchsubmit” button upon first click. This is done by adding onclick=”this.disabled=true;” after “id=searchsubmit” in masthead.inc.
Rather than modifying direcly masthead.inc, you could do it with a JavaScript snippet placed in opacuserjs system preference: $(document).ready(function() { $('#searchform').submit(function() { $('#searchsubmit').prop('disabled',true).text('searching...'); }); }); It could make sense to integrate this to Koha code base: open a bug ticket.