diff --git a/custom/conf/app.example.ini b/custom/conf/app.example.ini
index d819b55d28..eacc732c22 100644
--- a/custom/conf/app.example.ini
+++ b/custom/conf/app.example.ini
@@ -1485,6 +1485,10 @@ LEVEL = Info
 ;REPO_INDEXER_EXCLUDE =
 ;;
 ;MAX_FILE_SIZE = 1048576
+;;
+;; Bleve engine has performance problems with fuzzy search, so we limit the fuzziness to 0 by default to disable it.
+;; If you'd like to enable it, you can set it to a value between 0 and 2.
+;TYPE_BLEVE_MAX_FUZZINESS = 0
 
 ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
 ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
diff --git a/modules/indexer/code/indexer.go b/modules/indexer/code/indexer.go
index c1ab26569c..728b37fab6 100644
--- a/modules/indexer/code/indexer.go
+++ b/modules/indexer/code/indexer.go
@@ -123,13 +123,12 @@ func Init() {
 			for _, indexerData := range items {
 				log.Trace("IndexerData Process Repo: %d", indexerData.RepoID)
 				if err := index(ctx, indexer, indexerData.RepoID); err != nil {
-					unhandled = append(unhandled, indexerData)
 					if !setting.IsInTesting {
 						log.Error("Codes indexer handler: index error for repo %v: %v", indexerData.RepoID, err)
 					}
 				}
 			}
-			return unhandled
+			return nil // do not re-queue the failed items, otherwise some broken repo will block the queue
 		}
 
 		indexerQueue = queue.CreateUniqueQueue(ctx, "code_indexer", handler)
diff --git a/modules/indexer/code/indexer_test.go b/modules/indexer/code/indexer_test.go
index d04088531a..f358bbe785 100644
--- a/modules/indexer/code/indexer_test.go
+++ b/modules/indexer/code/indexer_test.go
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ import (
 	"code.gitea.io/gitea/modules/indexer/code/bleve"
 	"code.gitea.io/gitea/modules/indexer/code/elasticsearch"
 	"code.gitea.io/gitea/modules/indexer/code/internal"
+	"code.gitea.io/gitea/modules/setting"
+	"code.gitea.io/gitea/modules/test"
 
 	_ "code.gitea.io/gitea/models"
 	_ "code.gitea.io/gitea/models/actions"
@@ -279,7 +281,7 @@ func testIndexer(name string, t *testing.T, indexer internal.Indexer) {
 
 func TestBleveIndexAndSearch(t *testing.T) {
 	unittest.PrepareTestEnv(t)
-
+	defer test.MockVariableValue(&setting.Indexer.TypeBleveMaxFuzzniess, 2)()
 	dir := t.TempDir()
 
 	idx := bleve.NewIndexer(dir)
diff --git a/modules/indexer/internal/bleve/util.go b/modules/indexer/internal/bleve/util.go
index a0c3dc4ad4..b6daa9e14b 100644
--- a/modules/indexer/internal/bleve/util.go
+++ b/modules/indexer/internal/bleve/util.go
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import (
 	"unicode"
 
 	"code.gitea.io/gitea/modules/log"
+	"code.gitea.io/gitea/modules/setting"
 	"code.gitea.io/gitea/modules/util"
 
 	"github.com/blevesearch/bleve/v2"
@@ -54,9 +55,9 @@ func openIndexer(path string, latestVersion int) (bleve.Index, int, error) {
 	return index, 0, nil
 }
 
-// This method test the GuessFuzzinessByKeyword method. The fuzziness is based on the levenshtein distance and determines how many chars
-// may be different on two string and they still be considered equivalent.
-// Given a phrasse, its shortest word determines its fuzziness. If a phrase uses CJK (eg: `갃갃갃` `啊啊啊`), the fuzziness is zero.
+// GuessFuzzinessByKeyword guesses fuzziness based on the levenshtein distance and determines how many chars
+// may be different on two string, and they still be considered equivalent.
+// Given a phrase, its shortest word determines its fuzziness. If a phrase uses CJK (eg: `갃갃갃` `啊啊啊`), the fuzziness is zero.
 func GuessFuzzinessByKeyword(s string) int {
 	tokenizer := unicode_tokenizer.NewUnicodeTokenizer()
 	tokens := tokenizer.Tokenize([]byte(s))
@@ -85,5 +86,5 @@ func guessFuzzinessByKeyword(s string) int {
 			return 0
 		}
 	}
-	return min(maxFuzziness, len(s)/4)
+	return min(min(setting.Indexer.TypeBleveMaxFuzzniess, maxFuzziness), len(s)/4)
 }
diff --git a/modules/indexer/internal/bleve/util_test.go b/modules/indexer/internal/bleve/util_test.go
index 8f7844464e..1a7e4db0f4 100644
--- a/modules/indexer/internal/bleve/util_test.go
+++ b/modules/indexer/internal/bleve/util_test.go
@@ -7,10 +7,15 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"testing"
 
+	"code.gitea.io/gitea/modules/setting"
+	"code.gitea.io/gitea/modules/test"
+
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
 )
 
 func TestBleveGuessFuzzinessByKeyword(t *testing.T) {
+	defer test.MockVariableValue(&setting.Indexer.TypeBleveMaxFuzzniess, 2)()
+
 	scenarios := []struct {
 		Input     string
 		Fuzziness int // See util.go for the definition of fuzziness in this particular context
@@ -46,7 +51,7 @@ func TestBleveGuessFuzzinessByKeyword(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 
 	for _, scenario := range scenarios {
-		t.Run(fmt.Sprintf("ensure fuzziness of '%s' is '%d'", scenario.Input, scenario.Fuzziness), func(t *testing.T) {
+		t.Run(fmt.Sprintf("Fuziniess:%s=%d", scenario.Input, scenario.Fuzziness), func(t *testing.T) {
 			assert.Equal(t, scenario.Fuzziness, GuessFuzzinessByKeyword(scenario.Input))
 		})
 	}
diff --git a/modules/setting/indexer.go b/modules/setting/indexer.go
index 34b4eac15b..e34baae012 100644
--- a/modules/setting/indexer.go
+++ b/modules/setting/indexer.go
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ var Indexer = struct {
 	IncludePatterns      []*GlobMatcher
 	ExcludePatterns      []*GlobMatcher
 	ExcludeVendored      bool
+
+	TypeBleveMaxFuzzniess int
 }{
 	IssueType:        "bleve",
 	IssuePath:        "indexers/issues.bleve",
@@ -88,6 +90,7 @@ func loadIndexerFrom(rootCfg ConfigProvider) {
 	Indexer.ExcludeVendored = sec.Key("REPO_INDEXER_EXCLUDE_VENDORED").MustBool(true)
 	Indexer.MaxIndexerFileSize = sec.Key("MAX_FILE_SIZE").MustInt64(1024 * 1024)
 	Indexer.StartupTimeout = sec.Key("STARTUP_TIMEOUT").MustDuration(30 * time.Second)
+	Indexer.TypeBleveMaxFuzzniess = sec.Key("TYPE_BLEVE_MAX_FUZZINESS").MustInt(0)
 }
 
 // IndexerGlobFromString parses a comma separated list of patterns and returns a glob.Glob slice suited for repo indexing
diff --git a/routers/common/codesearch.go b/routers/common/codesearch.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a14af126e5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/routers/common/codesearch.go
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+// Copyright 2024 The Gitea Authors. All rights reserved.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+
+package common
+
+import (
+	"code.gitea.io/gitea/modules/setting"
+	"code.gitea.io/gitea/services/context"
+)
+
+func PrepareCodeSearch(ctx *context.Context) (ret struct {
+	Keyword  string
+	Language string
+	IsFuzzy  bool
+},
+) {
+	ret.Language = ctx.FormTrim("l")
+	ret.Keyword = ctx.FormTrim("q")
+
+	fuzzyDefault := setting.Indexer.RepoIndexerEnabled
+	fuzzyAllow := true
+	if setting.Indexer.RepoType == "bleve" && setting.Indexer.TypeBleveMaxFuzzniess == 0 {
+		fuzzyDefault = false
+		fuzzyAllow = false
+	}
+	isFuzzy := ctx.FormOptionalBool("fuzzy").ValueOrDefault(fuzzyDefault)
+	if isFuzzy && !fuzzyAllow {
+		ctx.Flash.Info("Fuzzy search is disabled by default due to performance reasons")
+		isFuzzy = false
+	}
+
+	ctx.Data["IsBleveFuzzyDisabled"] = true
+	ctx.Data["Keyword"] = ret.Keyword
+	ctx.Data["Language"] = ret.Language
+	ctx.Data["IsFuzzy"] = isFuzzy
+
+	ctx.Data["IsRepoIndexerEnabled"] = setting.Indexer.RepoIndexerEnabled
+	return ret
+}
diff --git a/routers/web/explore/code.go b/routers/web/explore/code.go
index 3658144610..ae5ff3db76 100644
--- a/routers/web/explore/code.go
+++ b/routers/web/explore/code.go
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import (
 	code_indexer "code.gitea.io/gitea/modules/indexer/code"
 	"code.gitea.io/gitea/modules/setting"
 	"code.gitea.io/gitea/modules/templates"
+	"code.gitea.io/gitea/routers/common"
 	"code.gitea.io/gitea/services/context"
 )
 
@@ -32,18 +33,10 @@ func Code(ctx *context.Context) {
 	ctx.Data["Title"] = ctx.Tr("explore")
 	ctx.Data["PageIsExplore"] = true
 	ctx.Data["PageIsExploreCode"] = true
-
-	language := ctx.FormTrim("l")
-	keyword := ctx.FormTrim("q")
-
-	isFuzzy := ctx.FormOptionalBool("fuzzy").ValueOrDefault(true)
-
-	ctx.Data["Keyword"] = keyword
-	ctx.Data["Language"] = language
-	ctx.Data["IsFuzzy"] = isFuzzy
 	ctx.Data["PageIsViewCode"] = true
 
-	if keyword == "" {
+	prepareSearch := common.PrepareCodeSearch(ctx)
+	if prepareSearch.Keyword == "" {
 		ctx.HTML(http.StatusOK, tplExploreCode)
 		return
 	}
@@ -80,9 +73,9 @@ func Code(ctx *context.Context) {
 	if (len(repoIDs) > 0) || isAdmin {
 		total, searchResults, searchResultLanguages, err = code_indexer.PerformSearch(ctx, &code_indexer.SearchOptions{
 			RepoIDs:        repoIDs,
-			Keyword:        keyword,
-			IsKeywordFuzzy: isFuzzy,
-			Language:       language,
+			Keyword:        prepareSearch.Keyword,
+			IsKeywordFuzzy: prepareSearch.IsFuzzy,
+			Language:       prepareSearch.Language,
 			Paginator: &db.ListOptions{
 				Page:     page,
 				PageSize: setting.UI.RepoSearchPagingNum,
diff --git a/routers/web/repo/search.go b/routers/web/repo/search.go
index cbc7e2e0fe..c60301475f 100644
--- a/routers/web/repo/search.go
+++ b/routers/web/repo/search.go
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import (
 	code_indexer "code.gitea.io/gitea/modules/indexer/code"
 	"code.gitea.io/gitea/modules/setting"
 	"code.gitea.io/gitea/modules/templates"
+	"code.gitea.io/gitea/routers/common"
 	"code.gitea.io/gitea/services/context"
 )
 
@@ -29,18 +30,9 @@ func indexSettingToGitGrepPathspecList() (list []string) {
 
 // Search render repository search page
 func Search(ctx *context.Context) {
-	language := ctx.FormTrim("l")
-	keyword := ctx.FormTrim("q")
-
-	isFuzzy := ctx.FormOptionalBool("fuzzy").ValueOrDefault(true)
-
-	ctx.Data["Keyword"] = keyword
-	ctx.Data["Language"] = language
-	ctx.Data["IsFuzzy"] = isFuzzy
 	ctx.Data["PageIsViewCode"] = true
-	ctx.Data["IsRepoIndexerEnabled"] = setting.Indexer.RepoIndexerEnabled
-
-	if keyword == "" {
+	prepareSearch := common.PrepareCodeSearch(ctx)
+	if prepareSearch.Keyword == "" {
 		ctx.HTML(http.StatusOK, tplSearch)
 		return
 	}
@@ -57,9 +49,9 @@ func Search(ctx *context.Context) {
 		var err error
 		total, searchResults, searchResultLanguages, err = code_indexer.PerformSearch(ctx, &code_indexer.SearchOptions{
 			RepoIDs:        []int64{ctx.Repo.Repository.ID},
-			Keyword:        keyword,
-			IsKeywordFuzzy: isFuzzy,
-			Language:       language,
+			Keyword:        prepareSearch.Keyword,
+			IsKeywordFuzzy: prepareSearch.IsFuzzy,
+			Language:       prepareSearch.Language,
 			Paginator: &db.ListOptions{
 				Page:     page,
 				PageSize: setting.UI.RepoSearchPagingNum,
@@ -75,9 +67,9 @@ func Search(ctx *context.Context) {
 			ctx.Data["CodeIndexerUnavailable"] = !code_indexer.IsAvailable(ctx)
 		}
 	} else {
-		res, err := git.GrepSearch(ctx, ctx.Repo.GitRepo, keyword, git.GrepOptions{
+		res, err := git.GrepSearch(ctx, ctx.Repo.GitRepo, prepareSearch.Keyword, git.GrepOptions{
 			ContextLineNumber: 1,
-			IsFuzzy:           isFuzzy,
+			IsFuzzy:           prepareSearch.IsFuzzy,
 			RefName:           git.RefNameFromBranch(ctx.Repo.BranchName).String(), // BranchName should be default branch or the first existing branch
 			PathspecList:      indexSettingToGitGrepPathspecList(),
 		})
diff --git a/routers/web/user/code.go b/routers/web/user/code.go
index 9d515596f1..665ce1a6a6 100644
--- a/routers/web/user/code.go
+++ b/routers/web/user/code.go
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import (
 	code_indexer "code.gitea.io/gitea/modules/indexer/code"
 	"code.gitea.io/gitea/modules/setting"
 	"code.gitea.io/gitea/modules/templates"
+	"code.gitea.io/gitea/routers/common"
 	shared_user "code.gitea.io/gitea/routers/web/shared/user"
 	"code.gitea.io/gitea/services/context"
 )
@@ -34,20 +35,11 @@ func CodeSearch(ctx *context.Context) {
 	}
 
 	ctx.Data["IsPackageEnabled"] = setting.Packages.Enabled
-	ctx.Data["IsRepoIndexerEnabled"] = setting.Indexer.RepoIndexerEnabled
 	ctx.Data["Title"] = ctx.Tr("explore.code")
-
-	language := ctx.FormTrim("l")
-	keyword := ctx.FormTrim("q")
-
-	isFuzzy := ctx.FormOptionalBool("fuzzy").ValueOrDefault(true)
-
-	ctx.Data["Keyword"] = keyword
-	ctx.Data["Language"] = language
-	ctx.Data["IsFuzzy"] = isFuzzy
 	ctx.Data["IsCodePage"] = true
 
-	if keyword == "" {
+	prepareSearch := common.PrepareCodeSearch(ctx)
+	if prepareSearch.Keyword == "" {
 		ctx.HTML(http.StatusOK, tplUserCode)
 		return
 	}
@@ -77,9 +69,9 @@ func CodeSearch(ctx *context.Context) {
 	if len(repoIDs) > 0 {
 		total, searchResults, searchResultLanguages, err = code_indexer.PerformSearch(ctx, &code_indexer.SearchOptions{
 			RepoIDs:        repoIDs,
-			Keyword:        keyword,
-			IsKeywordFuzzy: isFuzzy,
-			Language:       language,
+			Keyword:        prepareSearch.Keyword,
+			IsKeywordFuzzy: prepareSearch.IsFuzzy,
+			Language:       prepareSearch.Language,
 			Paginator: &db.ListOptions{
 				Page:     page,
 				PageSize: setting.UI.RepoSearchPagingNum,
diff --git a/templates/shared/search/code/search.tmpl b/templates/shared/search/code/search.tmpl
index e49ea47e03..dde45c0fbf 100644
--- a/templates/shared/search/code/search.tmpl
+++ b/templates/shared/search/code/search.tmpl
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 	{{template "shared/search/combo_fuzzy" dict "Value" .Keyword "Disabled" .CodeIndexerUnavailable "IsFuzzy" .IsFuzzy "Placeholder" (ctx.Locale.Tr "search.code_kind")}}
 </form>
 <div class="divider"></div>
-<div class="ui user list">
+<div class="ui list">
+	{{template "base/alert" .}}
 	{{if .CodeIndexerUnavailable}}
 		<div class="ui error message">
 			<p>{{ctx.Locale.Tr "search.code_search_unavailable"}}</p>