Re: [htdig] Re: htsearch very slow on Mac Mini - why?

[Janine S. <ja...@fu...>]

No, it's the same version of htdig and the identical config file.  
Unfortunately.

We seem to be getting somewhat inconsistent results;  it was faster the 
next time I fiddled with it, or so it seemed to me.  Nothing else is 
going on on the box except an Interchange site with one user, so it 
pretty much has all the resources to itself.  Odd that it would not be 
consistent.

We like the minis because cabinet space at the colo is expensive, but I 
think we are probably going to abandon the experiment for now and use 
the mini for something that's not so disk I/O intensive.

janine

On Jul 15, 2005, at 3:51 PM, Jim wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Janine Sisk wrote:
>
>> If the problem is the slow disk drives then using OS X probably isn't 
>> going to help.  But if it's something in Yellow Dog Linux, then it 
>> might.  I just don't know how to tell where the bottleneck is.
>
> Did you by chance change versions of ht://Dig when you moved things to
> Yellow Dog? If so, you might want to get rid of the YDL package, if 
> that
> is what you are using, and build a new version from source that matches
> what you were using before.
>
> I assume you are using a config file that is equivalent to what you had
> in the old machine? If not, you might want to check into the
> differences. Changes to things like the search algorithms could make a
> big difference in performance.
>
> Jim