[Xapian-discuss] Remote databases slower than local?

[Olly Betts]

On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 11:31:58PM -0400, Rocco Caputo wrote:
> On Jul 10, 2006, at 18:25, Olly Betts wrote:
> >On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 02:06:12PM -0400, Rocco Caputo wrote:
> >>Are there known cases where remote database access is 2-6 times
> >>slower than local access to the same database?
> >
> >What are the actual query times here - i.e. are we talking 1 second
> >compare to 2-6 seconds, or 0.01 seconds compare to 0.02-0.06, or what?
> 
> 5-10 seconds vs. 25-60 seconds on a quite fast network.

Dear me, even 5-10 is pretty bad.

Have you tried it with the remote server on the same machine (running
across loopback)?  If that's similarly bad it means latency isn't an
issue here.

Cheers,
    Olly