[Xapian-discuss] preformance issue

[Olly Betts]

On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 10:44:11AM +0100, Arjen van der Meijden wrote:
> >>postlist_DB file size: 1.3G
> >>position_DB file size: 2.8G
> >>record_DB file size: 4.6G
> >>termlist_DB file size: 1.1G
> 
> Isn't the record table normally smaller than position?

The record table size depends a lot on how big the stuff you put in the
document data is.

But its size shouldn't make much difference to search times though if
you're doing a search and showing 10 (or a fairly small number of)
results.

Cheers,
    Olly