[Xapian-discuss] How to speed up indexing ?

[Charlie Hull]

Olly Betts wrote:

> I've not seen any performance studies of Xapian on Windows, and
> I'm not aware of any large deployments, so it is possible that the
> Windows VM subsystem just sucks badly for Xapian's usage patterns.  If
> you're still struggling to get good performance after setting
> XAPIAN_FLUSH_THRESHOLD, I'd suggest trying the same code on a similar
> spec box running Linux or similar to see how it compares.  If there's a
> problem here it might be possible to improve things.

We have production sites running on Windows with much faster indexing 
than this, so I suspect there's something odd going on....

Charlie