You know, I've never really considered FastCGI for anything before, but that doesn't sound like a bad idea. Still not as simple as deploy and run, since there are still two pieces (FastCGI/PyLucene and lighttpd), but possibly simpler (and possibly faster) than apache.
-ofer > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jack L > Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 6:29 PM > To: Ofer Nave > Subject: Re: [pylucene-dev] Need to build a high-load searcher > > solr is a good option as mentioned in another reply. > > And grassyknoll sounds good too, as mentioned in another reply. > > You can also try using a Python FastCGI server if you want to > use Python, and use a front-end web server like lighttpd. It > scales up by having multiple instances of Python FastCGI > servers running and the web server load balances them. > > If you use OS file caching, all Python processes will be > sharing the same file cache, which saves on memory. > > -- > Best regards, > Jack > > Monday, March 19, 2007, 4:24:28 PM, you wrote: > > > I need to build a lucene search engine that can handle very > high loads > > (hundreds of requests per second) via a web interface. It will be > > deployed on one or more multi-proc servers, with the index > > pre-generated and available via an NFS partition. The > index is small > > enough to fit into RAM, so assume linux will cache the > whole thing (it > > seems to be now - there's no performance difference for me between > > FSDirectory and RAMDirectory). I'm new to both Python and > Lucene, so > > I have little experience with what the best solutions are. > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection > around http://mail.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > pylucene-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/pylucene-dev _______________________________________________ pylucene-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/pylucene-dev
