Re: nnir on Windows? search engine?

[nn@searchtools.com (Search Tools Consulting)]

Peter Davis <pd@world.std.com> wrote in message news:<heby37bh.fsf@bitstream.com>...
> Yesterday I installed Swish-E on my Windows 2000 machine, and fired it
> up with:
> 
>    swish-e -f ~/Mail/index.swish-e -i ~/Mail/
> 
> (which I got from Alexander Reinwarth's article on my.gnus.com).  This
> ran all yesterday afternoon, during which time I killed everything
> else on my system to feed memory to this process.  I finally gave up
> and went home.  When I returned this morning, it was still running
> (after about 18 hours), with no signs of progress.  I finally had to
> kill it to get some memory back.
> 
> I'd *love* to run nnir, but:
> 
> 1) Is there some better indexing software to use for Windows?  I don't
>    mind a marathon first pass, if it can be updated incrementally.
>    Can Swish-E or any of the others?
> 
> 2) Is there a search engine that actually doesn't die when it runs out
>    of memory, but actually manages checkpointing to disk, etc.?
> 
> I currently have about 750 Mb of email spread over about 60,000 files.
>
Swish-e is not native to Windows, but it's suppposed to run.  You
should check for the most recent build at the site,
<http://www.swish-e.org>.

Other open-source Windows search enignes include SWISH++,
Juggernautsearch, MPS information server, the JXTA package (Java). 
But most of the fun stuff is on unix.

Avi