Each time I make a new local search (limit 10k images) and sort by smallest first, I keep getting different results. Is there a reason for this, how can I just get the absolute smallest files out of the 200k I have?

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Anonymous 12/09/16 (Fri) 01:54:03 9b07ea No.4697

Each time I make a new local search (limit 10k images) and sort by smallest first, I keep getting different results. Is there a reason for this, how can I just get the absolute smallest files out of the 200k I have?

hydrus_dev ## Board Owner 12/10/16 (Sat) 20:00:06 ea12e8 No.4700

>>4697

Unfortunately, the db is not aware of what the gui wants in terms of sort and so on. The system:limit predicate (which is how the 10k limit works) chooses a random sample of the larger search.

If you add something like 'system:size<100KB' to your query, the sampled result will be more accurate. If you set the 100KB lower, the result set will have less than 10k results, and you will get what you want.

Anonymous 12/10/16 (Sat) 20:14:32 9b07ea No.4701

Thanks dev, that helps out a ton. Also thank you so much for developing hydrus, one can't conceive of how many productive man hours and untold suffering you have helped relieve with this!