Hi, There will likely be very little difference between indexing all departments from a main page and using htmerge to merge together the databases. Certainly, if you're seeing performance problems, this will not be remedied by your proposed approach. (Keep in mind that it would certainly take less time to index the departments and merge than to index the departments and then index them again for the "main" index.)
The best strategy for what you desire depends a bit on the layout of the URLs. If there's some way to separate the departments strictly from the URL, then you can easily use the restrict/exclude fields in htsearch to pick particular departments. (This works nicely if each department has a separate server or distinct subdirectory.) Then you make one index that covers all departments and the main page. As far as "load," I'd also suggest you look at the speed of the disk or disk array, how much of the database can be cached by the OS in RAM and whether your server starts to swap during the slow searches. -- -Geoff Hutchison Williams Students Online http://wso.williams.edu/ At 5:08 AM +0000 12/9/01, masoga wrote: >Hello there, > >I would really appreciate it if you can shed some light on my >dilemma. We have Six large departments and on each departmental page >have it's own seperate database/htdig for that specific department >only, and on the company's main page one big database that encompass >all the six department. > >We implemented Multidig with addition of indexing PDF files. It >works flawlessly for each department. NO errors on collection, but >the search on the main page is extremely slow and it times out >sometime. > >I am planning NOT to Multidig, and have each Department act a >standalone database, and create one big database encompassing all >the department from the main page directly instead joining the >seperate DBs. What do you think, will it resolve the performance >problems? Generaly what is the best strategy in dealing with a large >organization with many departments? > >The environment is Sun Solaris, 220R 256 MB of Ram, it's not under >heavy load even during mutliple seaches? > >Any advice would be greatly appreciated. The data in total around 20 GB. > >Thanks > >Joseph Masoga > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at ><http://go.msn.com/bql/hmtag_itl_EN.asp>http://explorer.msn.com _______________________________________________ htdig-general mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with a subject of unsubscribe FAQ: http://htdig.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html
