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Re: News search function temporarily disabled
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Date: 
Mon, 18 Dec 2000 01:57:04 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Frank Filz writes:
How long does it take to generate the index?

Zero time.  It's done continuously as a background process.  Once per minute,
any new article is added into the mix.


Can you subdivide the index
at all (and do something like backup where you have incremental indices
plus once a day or once an hour regenerate the complete index)? If some
sort of incremental index was used, could you gain anything by not
running it until a search is done? Just some thoughts but probably not
all applicable depending on how it's done.

This kind of index is more efficient to do as soon as something new appears,
as opposed to a kind of index where content changes periodically and
reindexing is a painful hit.  It's not the indexing that's currently the
bottleneck -- it's the way the query interpreter uses the data from the index
that's the bottleneck.

--Todd



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(...) How long does it take to generate the index? Can you subdivide the index at all (and do something like backup where you have incremental indices plus once a day or once an hour regenerate the complete index)? If some sort of incremental index (...) (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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