[Xapian-discuss] Xapian under 360 MB VPS

[Olly Betts]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 05:19:41PM +0000, Richard Boulton wrote:
> 2010/1/21 Marlon Baculio <mbaculio at hotmail.com>:
> > 1. Will file handle limitation be a problem for multithreaded Xapian reader?
> 
> Depends on search load.  Each reader keeps about 5 filehandles open,
> so multiply that by the number of concurrent readers you want.  If it
> comes close to the per-process fd limit, you've got a problem.

"About 5" is between 3 and 7 for flint, the default backend in 1.0.

The tables for values, spelling, synonyms, and positional data are optional
and created lazily if such data is actually added to the database.

The per-process fd limit is pretty high on most modern OSes, and can often be
increased so it's probably not an issue for most people.

Cheers,
    Olly