Re: [OT] Re: search.cpan.org

2001-12-04 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Nick Tonkin wrote: Well, ask Ask if you want the whole truth. But when I saked him that's what he said. Maybe there's a problem with the architecture and some pre-indexing is done per session or something suboptimal like that. Ask? No, Robert is right. It's just searches

[OT] Re: search.cpan.org

2001-11-27 Thread Nick Tonkin
Because it does a full text search of all the contents of the DB. ~~~ Nick Tonkin On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Robert Landrum wrote: Does anyone know why search.cpan.org is always the s-l-o-w-e-s-t site on the internet? I can't believe it always busy. I've had trouble hitting it at 3

[OT] Re: search.cpan.org

2001-11-27 Thread Robert Landrum
Sure... When doing searches. But it takes me about 20 seconds just to hit any page... not just the search pages. And don't misunderstand, I think search.cpan.org is awesome. I just wondered if anyone knew why it was slow all the time. Rob At 12:55 PM -0800 11/27/01, Nick Tonkin wrote:

Re: [OT] Re: search.cpan.org

2001-11-27 Thread Bill Moseley
At 12:55 PM 11/27/01 -0800, Nick Tonkin wrote: Because it does a full text search of all the contents of the DB. Perhaps, but it's just overloaded. I'm sure he's working on it, but anyone want of offer Graham free hosting? A few mirrors would be nice, too. (Plus, all my CPAN.pm setups are now

[OT] Re: search.cpan.org

2001-11-27 Thread Nick Tonkin
Well, ask Ask if you want the whole truth. But when I saked him that's what he said. Maybe there's a problem with the architecture and some pre-indexing is done per session or something suboptimal like that. Ask? ~~~ Nick Tonkin On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Robert Landrum wrote: Sure... When

Re: [OT] Re: search.cpan.org

2001-11-27 Thread Mark Maunder
Nick Tonkin wrote: Because it does a full text search of all the contents of the DB. Not sure what he's using for a back end, but mysql 4.0 (in alpha) has very fast and feature rich full text searching now, so perhaps he can migrate to that once it's released in December sometime. I'm using

Re: [OT] Re: search.cpan.org

2001-11-27 Thread Bill Moseley
At 09:02 PM 11/27/01 +, Mark Maunder wrote: I'm using it on our site and searching fulltext indexes on three fields (including a large text field) in under 3 seconds on over 70,000 records on a p550 with 490 megs of ram. Hi Mark, plug Some day if you are bored, try indexing with swish-e

Re: [OT] Re: search.cpan.org

2001-11-27 Thread Randy Kobes
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Bill Moseley wrote: At 12:55 PM 11/27/01 -0800, Nick Tonkin wrote: Because it does a full text search of all the contents of the DB. Perhaps, but it's just overloaded. I think the load, and network connection, is the main reason; the search itself, if you were