[Xapian-discuss] xapian indexing size?

[rm at fabula.de]

On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 01:39:20PM -0400, John Paige wrote:
> Hi,
>    I am evaluating to use xapian in our product. I just downloaded the
> core and examples code from the website.
> I'm puzzeled about one thing though,  when I used the test program
> "simpleIndexer", I found out that the index size is four times the
> size of the corpus. I indexed 4MB worth of text files, and the index
> was 16MB to index, and even after compaction, it still consumed 10MB.
> when I added additional 4MB of text files, the original index went to 32MB.
> 
> The index size is four times the size of the corpus, it doesn't seem
> right. Am I doing something wrong?

Most likely not - but tell us what you _expect_ the index size to be?
Do you expect the index size to be _smaller_ than the corpus? 

 Cheers Ralf Mattes

> Thanks,
> John
> 
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