Unfortunately, TS does not support distributed indexes... I would like to, but 
it hasn't been a priority, and I'm not sure what the syntax would look like. 
Any suggestions on how it should be implemented are welcome.

-- 
Pat

On 18/02/2010, at 10:19 AM, madhu wrote:

> hi pat,
> 
> I have sent my previous message to you by clicking on 'reply to
> author' instead of posting here. Sorry about the spam.
> 
> in short, the suggestion i got from 'sphinx forum' is to use
> distributed indexing. Does TS support distributed indexing ?
> 
> tx
> madhu
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Feb 17, 12:52 pm, madhu <[email protected]> wrote:
>> hello pat,
>> 
>> Thank you very much for the quick response. I will check the same with
>> sphinx group as well. I am trying to simplify the complex query
>> structure. When i reduce max_match to :1000, i could save about
>> 50-100ms.
>> 
>> regards
>> madhu
>> 
>> On Feb 17, 12:38 am, Pat Allan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Madhu
>> 
>>> I've never dealt with a Sphinx index of that size, so I'm not sure what the 
>>> best approach is. I recommend you ask this same question on the Sphinx 
>>> Forum, see if the people there can help.http://www.sphinxsearch.com/forum/
>> 
>>> Also, you may want to look into the following 
>>> setting:http://www.sphinxsearch.com/docs/manual-0.9.9.html#conf-preopen
>> 
>>> It's also worth noting that queries get slower the more complex they are, 
>>> and your previous email was in a thread with a complex query you wanted... 
>>> if there's any way of simplifying that, then that should help speeds too. 
>>> Having an explicit max_matches much higher than 1000 also keeps Sphinx 
>>> running a bit slower.
>> 
>>> Hope this is somewhat helpful.
>> 
>>> Cheers
>> 
>>> --
>>> Pat
>> 
>>> On 17/02/2010, at 3:35 PM, madhu wrote:
>> 
>>>> Is there any performance tuning parameters for sphinx. I am using the
>>>> following values in my sphinx.yml:
>>>> mem_limit: 256M
>>>> read_buffer: 2M
>>>> Is there any other things i can tune to improve the performance ?
>> 
>>>> I have 10 million records and my sphinx index folder is about 2.5gb.
>>>> and using "extended" search queries with max_matches: 2000. Its taking
>>>> almost 1.5 seconds for one search query in sphinx. The average DB
>>>> response time is 20 - 100ms. I want to reduce sphinx delay to 500ms or
>>>> less. Is it possible ?
>> 
>>>> Other thing I observed is though the index size is 2.5gb, searchd only
>>>> occupies 500mb of RAM when started. then when the queries are running,
>>>> the memory usage goes between 500mb and 700mb. Is there a way to load
>>>> entire index to memory so that i can completely eliminate the IO
>>>> reads ?(I have enough RAM)
>> 
>>>> I am running sphinx server in one machine, DB in another machine and
>>>> Web-Server on a third machine.
>> 
>>>> appreciate any help.
>> 
>>>> tx
>>>> madhu
>> 
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