System requirements to boost xapian's performance?

[David Bremner]

Philip Colmer <philip.colmer at linaro.org> writes:
>
> What changes can I make to the specification of a server to best improve
> the performance of the indexing? For example, if I throw more cores at
> this, will the indexing go faster?
>
> Thanks for any insight/suggestions.

I think it will depend a great deal on the indexer, and I don't know
anything about how mailman uses Xapian. Based on my experience with
Notmuch I would say strive for fast IO (definitely SSD, perhaps ramdisk)
and fast single threaded performance. Memory use is usually moderate by
2021 standards.

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