Martin,
You might ask whether it is really necessary to index spreadsheets. My
argument for ignoring them is that it is better if the search engine finds
the web page with the link to the spreadsheet rather than taking the user
directly to the spreadsheet.
As regards .ppt files, I used to notice ppthtml running in very large
processes when we ran htdig under Solaris. I can't recall ever having to
intervene and kill them, but I did add the command
limit vmemory 200m
to the rundig script to limit the size of the process they could use. When
we moved to RedHat Linux the problem went away. However, if somebody knows
of a better converter for Powerpoint then I too would like to hear about it.
David Adams
Corporate Information Services
Information Systems Services
University of Southampton
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Allert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "David Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 2:10 PM
Subject: Re: [htdig] office document converters
Hi David,
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 02:02:35PM +0100, David Adams wrote:
> Martin,
>
> This is a joke, yes?
>
> If not, please note that the Lucene FAQs make it clear that it is equally
> dependant on external parsers.
That's what a colleague recommended to me: to look in the lucene FAQ's
whether there is any alternative to the already mentioned parsers..
Honestly, I didn't take a look first before writing my email. :(
Fact is: indexing some webtree with the mentioned ppthtml, xlhtml or
xpdf takes ten times longer with a load of 10 on a dualproc Sun V480 with
4G RAM. Indexing only .doc files and .html rundig completes in about 30mins.
I discover hanging ppthtml and xlhtml processes, consuming nearly 95% CPU
and consuming about 1GB RAM for each document. Of course, those processes
don't come back and have to be killed... :(
> We use wp2html to convert Word documents and it's fine,but we bought it
only
> because we needed to convert Wordperfect documents (not that we get many!)
>
> David Adams
Yours,
Martin
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