[Xapian-discuss] last_mod performance

Richard Boulton richard at lemurconsulting.com
Tue Feb 10 08:09:12 GMT 2009


On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:16:37AM +1030, Frank J Bruzzaniti wrote:
> I was just wondering if anyone knew what the performance increase was 
> using last_mod to only to scanned altered files.

I've not measured it, but it will typically be quite significant.  Depends
how many files you have which aren't frequently changing, of course.

> I understand I guess it all depends on how busy the site is and how many 
> files change, but typically would you say it's a feature that
> you would use because of a dramatic increase in performance.

Yes.

-- 
Richard



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