Re: [Lurker-users] Lurker 1.0 Survey

[Wesley W. T. <we...@te...>]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 11:15:13PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 11:25:15PM +0200, Wesley W. Terpstra wrote:
> > 7. Back-issue import w/o reimport or date-sorted search?
> 
> Not entirely sure what you're referring to here.

Right now, when you want to import messages that are older than the most
recently imported message, you have to dump the database and start over.

This is because messages are assigned IDs in chronological order, and I
return the results in sorted order based on these IDs. This is why you
always see most recent results first in a search.

If I have to choose between one or the other, which is more important:
	ability to import messages from the past w/o reimport
	searches returning recent messages first

> > 9. How much RAM is too much for lurker to use?
> 
> 32-64 (not entirely sure what it uses now)

This is Mb? (right now it uses nearly exactly 8Mb - always)

> > 14. What should be improved most in lurker? (other than stability)
> 
> DB fault tolerance.  Possibly even with the option to automatically have
> it start from scratch if it can't recover.

... other than stability. :-)

The main things I intend to improve right now (subject to being out-voted):
	a much faster (!!!), 32-bit ok, and transactional db
	using a faster/less-hassles mime parser (mime++)

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Wes