I'ved disabled the DocProperties  (/* #define SUPPORT... */  in config.h).
For us this is the only way to use swish-e any further.

With DocProperties installed, swish-e will kill a Sparc Enterprise Server
with 4
CPUs and really lots of memory (doing an index for approx 40 MB HTML
and aprox. 700 MB PDF). (we have some hundreds users on this machine).

A "top" shows that the swish-e process  requires > 4500 MB of memory
to handle our job. Yek!

-- Rainer

Lars Kellogg-Stedman wrote:

> > Swish builds it's indexes in memory so it is not the best at handling
> > very large indexing situations.  Since DocProperties are generally text
> > strings it's easy to
>
> I'd have to call that an understatement.  I'm working on a 128MB machine,
> and swish is having a hard time handling my modest mailing list archive
> (a few years worth of messages from a single -- normally low traffic --
> list, about 8000 messages total).
>
> I want to move the whole operation to a spare Linux box I've got sitting
> around, and with 32MB it will do everything else I want it to do -- web
> server, mail server, etc. -- but I'm afraid that swish will kill it.
>
> Is anyone working on making swish-e more memory efficient?  Are there any
> alternatives?  Glimpse is okay, but I really like swish-e's support for
> document properties.  Is there anything else out there?
>
> -- Lars
>
> --
> Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars@larsshack.org>
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