On Jan 25, 2008, at 7:02 AM, John Leach wrote: > Hi all, > > there was a recent thread[1] on rails-deploy about Ferret in which a > lot > of people complained of problems using it in production. > > I've been using Ferret (with DRb) for many months now with no serious > issues. I'm assuming the posters know what they're doing so I'm > guessing they're just using Ferret in higher-scale environments than > me. > > I spoke to someone in person yesterday who claimed that Ferret over > DRb > couldn't keep up with their use rate and had been investigating > replicating the ferret database between two machines. > > With all these bad experiences, I'd like to hear about some good > experiences. Anyone care to comment? Anyone using it under huge > load? > Care to provide some numbers and some notes about how you've made it > work?
I had used ferret w/ DrB at Technorati on a project that had several indexes of 5-10M documents. To make it work well I had to limit the update rates to the index (I think I took it down to about 1-2/s). To go to higher updates rates I would have had to change how we were writing and serving indexes. -ryan _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk
