[Xapian-discuss] xapian performance

[Olly Betts]

On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 09:19:39PM +0100, Arjen van der Meijden wrote:
> But I don't see any reports coming to my console when using omega??

Neither do I oddly.  Omega's Xapian::Database is a global so I guess the
destructor doesn't get called so the database doesn't get closed - a
little suprising for a modern C++ compiler though.  Normally this isn't
a problem as the destructor doesn't do anything exciting, but here we
want it to be called so it can report the stats.

The simplest workaround is to use "examples/quest" from xapian-core to
run the queries rather than omega.  See --help for the parameters to pass.

> I was going to try and see if the debug logging would show me whether 
> databases were actually closed, but that took so long, I didn't feel 
> like waiting for more than half an hour for a query that - without 
> logging - would only take 0.1 second... Nor was I able to figure out how 
> to limit the logging to something much less verbose.

Just the messages (i.e. --enable-debug-verbose) shouldn't be too bad
especially if you log to a file, though it's certainly slower.  You
can specify which messages types using a bitmap specified in env var
XAPIAN_DEBUG_FLAGS as the "HACKING" document describes.  The categories
each cover quite a lot of messages though.

Cheers,
    Olly