# Searching locks up the server for a while

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/searching-locks-up-the-server-for-a-while/198736
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 30, 2021, 10:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/searching-locks-up-the-server-for-a-while/198736 "2021-07-30T22:19:43Z")
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### Author: ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2021, 4:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/searching-locks-up-the-server-for-a-while/198736/4 "2021-08-02T16:56:13Z")

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You can follow this to upgrade:

> [@Manually update Discourse and Docker image to latest](https://meta.discourse.org/t/manually-update-discourse-and-docker-image-to-latest/23325/1):
>
> Every two months we recommend SSH’ing into your web server (using putty or your favorite SSH client) and doing
> 
> ```plaintext
> cd /var/discourse
> git pull
> ./launcher rebuild app
> 
> ```

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