Re: fulltext indexing and query speeds?

2003-07-30 Thread Sergei Golubchik
Hi! On Jul 29, Niels Larsen wrote: > Sergei, > > Will a future MySQL version combine the current nice and fast word-search > with ability to add data in finite time? I saw "Make all operations with FULLTEXT > index faster" on the TODO list .. are you able to say what is in the pipe? Not really

Re: fulltext indexing and query speeds?

2003-07-29 Thread Niels Larsen
Sergei, Thank you for the nice help. > Try to experiment with bulk_insert_buffer variable. You need both big > keycache and big bulk_insert_buffer. I lowered key_buffer_size from 512M to 256M and increased bulk_insert_buffer_size from 8M to 128M. > When MERGE tables will support fulltext sear

Re: fulltext indexing and query speeds?

2003-07-29 Thread Sergei Golubchik
Hi! On Jul 29, Niels Larsen wrote: > Sergei, > > I had two columns indexes of type BTREE where the .MYI file was ~5 gb. > Then I decided to drop one of them and replace it with a fulltext index. The > dropping took 4 hours and fulltext indexing also 4 hours. There were about You should've done i

Re: fulltext indexing and query speeds?

2003-07-28 Thread Sergei Golubchik
Hi! On Jul 28, Niels Larsen wrote: > Greetings, > > Do anyone know where to find a description of how fulltext indexing > and query speeds depend on data volume? I have 30-40 gb of text > distributed across 30-40 million entries, a medium size database I > suppose. But I have not even been abl