[Xapian-discuss] Unexpected slowness

[Olly Betts]

On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 12:19:04PM +0200, Daniel Andersson wrote:
> so the best remedy is to make sure that the search is used once in a  
> while and to get more memory for the machine..

For a search/index server running Linux, it's probably a good idea to
disable the daily cronjob which updates the "locate" database.  This
runs updatedb which recurses the filing system, pretty effectively
flushing most of the currently cached disk blocks!

Cheers,
    Olly