Paul Tomblin writes: > On Sun, Mar 1, 2026, at 5:43 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > > Paul Tomblin via Mailman-users writes: > > > Full-text indexing is a pretty slow operation, and it's I/O bound. If > > you've migrated a substantial archive, that will be a full-archive > > Is 431,000+ messages a substantial archive?
I would think that would be measured in terms of hours, not days, unless there are a substantial proportion of messages that are like all of Congress's annual appropriations bill. Of course in terms of how long it would be pinning I/O the important unit is "terabytes", not "messages". > > after the current message gets indexed). But if you didn't manually > > trigger a full archive index at the initial migration, the first > > I did a "update_index_one_list" on each archive after I brought it > into hyperkitty. I was impressed with the full text search. Yes, Xapian is quite good for my purposes. Especially compared to "Whoosh" for performance. I can't say about the other backends supported by Django Haystack, I'd like to try them as well. -- GNU Mailman consultant (installation, migration, customization) Sirius Open Source https://www.siriusopensource.com/ Software systems consulting in Europe, North America, and Japan _______________________________________________ Mailman-users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://lists.mailman3.org/mailman3/lists/mailman-users.mailman3.org/ Archived at: https://lists.mailman3.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/LWLZCMUGPLASXAPVF7HARNDXCOOQ7AXM/ This message sent to [email protected]
