Doug,
Our frontend server has 6 SCSI drive bays, would you suggest 6 separate
volumes or one raid 10 volume, or perhaps three raid 0 arrays? We have
networked storage that we could use for backups so we are not to concerned
about data loss. 

Thanks,
Murray

-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Cutting [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 12:38 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Nutch Search Speed Concern

Murray Hunter wrote:
> We tested search for a 20 Million page index on a dual core 64 bit 
> machine with 8 GB of ram using storage of the nutch data on another 
> server through linux nfs, and it's performance was terrible. It looks 
> like the bottleneck was nfs, so I was wondering how you had your 
> storage set up.  Are you using NDFS, or is it split up over multiple
servers?

For good search performance, indexes and segments should always reside on
local volumes, not in NDFS and not in NFS.  Ideally these can be spread
across the available local volumes, to permit more parallel disk i/o.  As a
rule of thumb, searching starts to get slow with more than around 20M pages
per node.  Systems larger than that should benefit from distributed search.

Doug



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