# How to speed up individual search in Gramps 6.0 on older Windows laptop? **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Tags:** performance\ **Created:** [July 26, 2025, 6:31am UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/how-to-speed-up-individual-search-in-gramps-6-0-on-older-windows-laptop/7994 "2025-07-26T06:31:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![emyoulation](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/emyoulation/32/67_2.png) [@emyoulation](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/emyoulation)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2025, 12:26pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/how-to-speed-up-individual-search-in-gramps-6-0-on-older-windows-laptop/7994/5 "2025-07-26T12:26:46Z")
> [@Kat](#): > > One issue I constantly face is the very slow search when I try to look up individuals by surname. The search using the Filter gramplet’s name field is complicated by it being a multiple parameter pattern search. It searches each word across a multitude of name-related fields in the database. Each additional word decreases the performance. The searchbar was a more responsive option in older versions of Gramps. But I seem to recall that it was “upgraded” recently form a simple single‐string ‘exact’ search to the same ‘multiple string, multiple pass’ search in a recent update. In past discussions, @SNoiraud has recommended using the RegEx option to force the Filter gramplet back to a single pass search. However, another thread on the forum says that [RegEx performance took a hit under 6.0](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/gramps-v6-regex-search-much-slower-than-gramps-v5-1/7330) There are other gramplets that use other name searching techniques with faster response. And Nick suggests experimenting with increasing the caching size. See the postings by @Nick-Hall and @kku in the following discussion: > [@Slow people and citations filter searches](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/slow-people-and-citations-filter-searches/5860): > > GRAMPS: 5.2.1 Python: 3.10.12 BSDDB: 6.2.9 (5, 3, 28) sqlite: 3.37.2 (2.6.0) LANG: en\_US.UTF-8 OS: Linux Distribution: 6.5.0-44-generic I tried to find any posts about “slow search” but not found. Looks like we already discussed mothing similar. But maybe it was another thing. I have a small DB. It has 11000 people only. This is nothing for modern computer powers. I think my PC is modern or at least it is quite good to be fast )). But each search takes almost 2 seconds (1.76 sec). I think… --- _[View the full topic](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/how-to-speed-up-individual-search-in-gramps-6-0-on-older-windows-laptop/7994)._