On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Janine Sisk wrote:
I have an htdig 3.1.6 installation that has been running just fine on an
older version of Redhat Linux, 7.2 or so. It's on an old (about four years)
Dell server, so not very impressive iron. It does have SCSI drives in a RAID
array (don't know the exact configuration).
I tried moving this setup to a Mac Mini running Yellow Dog Linux. rundig ran
in a reasonable amount of time (I can't make a direct comparison because it
was running in Portland and pulling the pages it was indexing off a server in
Boston, so a longer run time was to be expected). However, searches are
*slow*. A search that took 4 seconds on the Redhat system (not exactly
speedy itself) takes 30 seconds or longer on the Yellow Dog system.
This isn't surprising at all. The Mac Mini's are well known to have very
slow hard drives, and for the most part searches are I/O bound. Your old
Dell's RAID array will blow the pants of the Mac Mini's drive.
http://www.budget-ha.com/apple/mac-mini-firewire/
I've used htDig on YDL for many years without any problems (but never on
a Mini) when our site (www.mcgill.ca) was all running on Apple G4's.
Cheers,
Chris
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Christopher Murtagh
Enterprise Systems Administrator
ISR / Web Service Group
McGill University
Montreal, Quebec
Canada
Tel.: (514) 398-3122
Fax: (514) 398-2017
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