From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/1986
Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail
From: nn@searchtools.com (Search Tools Consulting)
Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user
Subject: Re: nnir on Windows?  search engine?
Date: 27 Jan 2003 12:55:39 -0800
Organization: http://groups.google.com/
Message-ID: <856c4bc6.0301271255.4993255f@posting.google.com>
References: <heby37bh.fsf@bitstream.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138668578 13431 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:49:38 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org
NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:49:38 +0000 (UTC)
Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:30:00 2006
Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!nsc.no!nextra.com!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.mathworks.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail
Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus
Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 171.66.185.178
Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1043700940 18644 127.0.0.1 (27 Jan 2003 20:55:40 GMT)
Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com
Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 27 Jan 2003 20:55:40 GMT
Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:2126
Original-Lines: 33
X-Gnus-Article-Number: 2126   Tue Jan 17 17:30:00 2006
Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:1986
Archived-At: <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/1986>

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