From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/1953 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Davis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: nnir on Windows? search engine? Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 11:56:03 -0500 Organization: Pageflex Inc. Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138668558 13315 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:49:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:49:18 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:29:57 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed.gazeta.pl!newsfeed.tpinternet.pl!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed-east.nntpserver.com!nntpserver.com!newshosting.com!news-xfer2.atl.newshosting.com!129.250.35.142.MISMATCH!iad-feed.news.verio.net!phl-feed.news.verio.net!news.bitstream.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 199.103.147.252 Original-X-Trace: news.bitstream.com 1043427048 4931 199.103.147.252 (24 Jan 2003 16:50:48 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: sysops@bitstream.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 24 Jan 2003 16:50:48 GMT X-Face: @Pq3?My0v;TPXbg}b;pHV{1I-kH,?FV:1$wMunQgt%u;KIx8Jl%)8E;Tag?jQQu4+Q,/QiTe@x!bk'k@uXGAj?wVZSBSj}T1X}Yql~e]uv@#]I>5F:BJ;+\k5B&3hG3ZT8_{3>#[D)SbK/9t&3TG$L7SnV3G User-Agent: Gnus/5.090013 (Oort Gnus v0.13) XEmacs/21.4 (Military Intelligence (Windows), i586-pc-win32) Cancel-Lock: sha1:flUzLNof7axd+GADdfRYCT1x504= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:2093 Original-Lines: 43 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 2093 Tue Jan 17 17:29:57 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:1953 Archived-At: Peter Davis 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 -- -------- Peter Davis Funny stuff at http://www.pfdstudio.com The artwork formerly shown as prints List of resources for children's writers and illustrators at: http://www.pfdstudio.com/cwrl.html