From: Peter Davis <pd@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: nnir on Windows? search engine?
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 11:56:03 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <r8b2zduk.fsf@bitstream.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <heby37bh.fsf@bitstream.com>
Peter Davis <pd@world.std.com> writes:
> 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.
I should mention that I'm using Karl Kleinpaste's messkeyw package,
which seems to do an excellent job of putting a message's keywords
into a header in the message. If there were some way of telling the
search/indexing engine to look only at those keywords, it might save
time and space.
Thanks,
-pd
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2003-01-24 16:08 ` Henrik Enberg
2003-01-24 16:56 ` Peter Davis [this message]
2003-01-27 20:55 ` Search Tools Consulting
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