[SunRescue] FAST Database or search engine?

[Paul Khoury]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 06:57:07 -0500 (EST), David Rouse wrote:

>
>> >I didn't look around too long, but we use Excite for Web Servers 
>> >(downloadable from the excite site, or was). Super easy to configure 
>and 
>> >fairly quick on about the same scale of text (25,000 news stories) on 
>a 
>> >670/MP running four 40 MHz processors. The searches are indexed, 
>which 
>> >may not be what you want, and normally take about 5 or 6 seconds.
>> >
>> That's not bad - anything that's that's around that time frame is 
>good.
>> How exactly does indexing work?
>
>That's the bad part, I don't think it does cumulative indexing, it seems 
>to want to re-index the whole collection every time. But you can set it 
>to do automated re-indexes. Our last re-index took 26 hours.
>
>I also think that there is a limit to the number of hits, I've never 
>seen it do more than two screens worth. But you can do 'more like this' 
>searches from the hit list. And for us, that seemed to be enough.
>
Hmmm...

What I have is a list of emails from another List I'm on, about 3 years worth
(almost 16K files) - I just want it so you can search through for a particular
phrase, then bring up the hits that matched.

One problem though - I only have 64MB of RAM, 4GB of disk space.

Paul