Hi Alex,
>> if I understand it well, you have all the articles locally on one >> machine. I wonder how long a simple grep over the article blobs would >> take? 22 seconds seems very long for any serious use. Have you > > Such numbers are very variable, and difficult to predict. I'm not sure what you mean. How long does a simple grep over the article blob files take? That should serve as a rough indicator about worst case behaviour. > For example, in the system mentioned in my previous mail, with > informations about millions of files distributed across several hosts, > searching for a given combination of e.g. file name pattern and > meta-informations like access times, sizes or md5 keys might take a > few seconds at the first access, but subsequent accesses > (i.e. continuing the search by scrolling down the list) showed almost > no delay at all. Hmm, I know too little about the actual system you talk about so I it's hard to make an educated opinion on this;-) Cheers, Tomas -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
