I am successfully using ferret with a few caveats, none of which to
my knowledge would be solved by using another solution.
I believe many corruption problems are associated with a bug in aaf
that causes multiple indexes to be built at the same time in the same
place. I'm not sure if that's been addressed as I didn't see any
response after reporting it months ago.
My primary issues is that the ferret index needs to be optimized
before it performs well. Since optimization locks the index from
reading, and can take 30 seconds on my index, this severely limits
how often I can update my index. I am working on a solution by
running two ferret servers, but this is requiring extensively
modifying the aaf plug-in.
I have investigated Sphynx, but I don't think that it solves my
problem of large amounts of constant updates.
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On Jan 25, 2008, at 1:53 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:02:50 +0000
From: John Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Ferret-talk] ferret success stories?
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Hi all,
there was a recent thread[1] on rails-deploy about Ferret in which
a lot
of people complained of problems using it in production.
I've been using Ferret (with DRb) for many months now with no serious
issues. I'm assuming the posters know what they're doing so I'm
guessing they're just using Ferret in higher-scale environments
than me.
I spoke to someone in person yesterday who claimed that Ferret over
DRb
couldn't keep up with their use rate and had been investigating
replicating the ferret database between two machines.
With all these bad experiences, I'd like to hear about some good
experiences. Anyone care to comment? Anyone using it under huge
load?
Care to provide some numbers and some notes about how you've made it
work?
John.
[1] http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-deployment/
browse_thread/thread/980fe7cb20cb97dd/bc798b52f439020c
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