[Xapian-discuss] Slow phrase performance

Henry C. henka at cityweb.co.za
Sun Oct 2 06:43:08 BST 2011


On Fri, September 30, 2011 18:49, Mark Malloy wrote:
> I have been unable to find reports of other people experiencing the
> same problem with poor phrase performance, so I am hoping it's simply something
> that I'm doing wrong or ineffectively.  Any help would be appreciated.

Phrase searching is very slow (comparatively) in my experience as well.  Make
sure your machine can get that whole index into it's cache to eliminate IO to
maximise performance (ie, if your index is 8GB or 16GB, then try to have at
least as much RAM, more is better).


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Regards
Henry




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