Re: [htdig-dev] Re: [htdig-members] Results of Possible Efficiency improvment for 3.2.0

[Jim <li...@yg...>]

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Joe R. Jah wrote:

>>    10592256 Jan 10 09:46 db.docdb
>>    10461184 Jan 10 09:44 db.docs.index
>>    90120192 Jan 10 09:44 db.excerpts
>>    113465344 Jan 10 09:44 db.words.db
>>       16384 Jan 10 09:44 db.words.db_weakcmpr
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> Not that it makes much of a difference, but it looks like you do not
> compress the excerpts, compression_level: 0; right?

Nope. I am using the default, which I believe is 6. However I am using a
non-default max_head_length (15000). Perhaps that accounts for the
difference in what you expected.

> Hmmm, no swapping!  That may be the deciding factor why the change in your
> elapsed time is so different than mine; or may be your CPU speed;-/
>
> My system is similar to yours, dual Xeon 2.4 GHz box RAID 5 10K RPM SCSI
> drives, and 2.0 GB DDR RAM; What's your CPU speed?

Dual Xeon 2.8 GHz. In terms of hardware, everything else sounds the same.
I did run the original tests under moderate load. I will try them again at
quieter times and see if that makes any difference.

Jim