Hi Jens, It's been a long time ;) Hope you're doing well. I have something to say about that all: Even if you find a right way of making Ferret quite *"stable"*, the development has stopped for more than a year now, leaving a LOT of bugs unsolved. Ferret has no future for the moment, and considering builduing website on it's top is like doing extrem sports on a just recovered broken leg..
Cheers, Jérémie On Jan 25, 5:06 pm, "Jens Krämer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > > Ferret is unstable in production. Segfaults, corrupted indexes > > galore. We've switched around 40 clients form ferret to sphinx and > > solved their problems this way. I will never use ferret again after > > all the problems I have seen it cause peoples production apps. > > I'd really like anybody experiencing problems like this to contact me > or even > better the ferret-talk mailing list about such problems. I have > several sites using > Ferret with DRb server runs rock solid there. I must admit that > they're relatively low > traffic, but high load is nothing that will make Ferret crash or > currupt indexes, if you > use it in the right way (say, one process accessing the index). > Without doubt there > are cases when Ferret will segfault, i.e. because of platform specific > problems, poor > argument checking and error handling in the C code and so on, but they > may be > circumvented most of the time. Not nice, but acts_as_ferret already > does most of this > for you. > > I also did some load tests with acts_as_ferret's DRb server a while > ago, where it handled> 30 mixed indexing and search requests per second from > multiple client processes for hours, > > and no crash or index corruption (index size was 7GB at the end of the > run) happened. > > So to summarize: it's definitely possible to have a stable Ferret > setup, before you take on the > work to switch to something else why not drop me a line and I'll be > happy to have a look at your > problem. > > However from what I've read here I'll be sure to check out Sphinx soon > so I know what you're > talking about here ;-) > > Cheers, > Jens --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deploying Rails" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-deployment@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-deployment?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
