Re: speeding searches by pre-indexing

Andrew Daviel <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.uw.c-client
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Mark Crispin wrote:

> On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Andrew Daviel wrote:
>> 129,634 messages in 23 hours
>
> Yikes!  What is that?  Indexing time?  Search time?

Indexing time.

Sorry, stripped off the original detail. I was trying to get a global 
search for all my mailboxes by pointing htdig at my webmail application.
So what I end up with is a web search engine that returns links into 
webmail. Works, friendlier than "grep whatever mail/.mix*", but indexing 
too slow for real world use.

The slowness is almost all in htdig (the indexing robot). It's 
single-threaded, and when it was written hammering websites at >> 
2 requests/minute was considered rude.
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