Thanks for your quick response Geoff; I have one more generalized
question: what are the advantages/disadvantages to using one large
database instead of 12 smaller ones? I use htdig to search 12 years worth
of mailing list posts. If users choose to restrict their search to only
one of those years, will one large database return significantly slower
results? Thanks again.
Eric
Geoff Hutchison sent this on Feb 23:
>On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Eric Luhrs wrote:
>
>> someone answer a few quick questions: is the newer version exempt from
>> the same htmerge errors?
>
>Yes. Of course it may have it's own set of errors... But for one, it
>doesn't need to sort the wordlist, so the problems from that are
>irrelevant.
>
>> Also, does v3.2.x require significantly greator disk space for
>> databases?
>
>No. In most cases, you can expect to see on the same order or perhaps even
>smaller databases.
>
>> Does it index faster? Thanks.
>
>This is a debatable point. I don't have a whole lot of reliable
>performance comparisons. Most people seem to experience a slowdown on
>indexing, offset with a speedup on searching.
>
>Performance comparisons, with database sizes, hardware specs and reliable
>timing would greatly help. (For example, if some people see major
>slowdowns on indexing because there are RAM problems, that's a different
>fix from changes to the algorithm.)
>
>--
>-Geoff Hutchison
>Williams Students Online
>http://wso.williams.edu/
>
>
Eric
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