Re: Wich hardware suits best for large full-text indexed

Look into running Swish-e instead:
http://www.swish-e.org

Great speed, nice engine, excellent boolean searches. We run it on
several sites each with over 500,000 documents. Performance is
consistently sub-second response time, and we also integrate it within
PHP, Perl and Postgresql too.

I know, it is nice to use tsearch2, but we also found the performance
lacking for those big indices. Maybe Oleg and the tsearch2 gang have
some extra tips?

- Ericson

Bill Moran wrote:

> Diogo Biazus wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I have a database using tsearch2 to index 300 000 documents.
>> I've already have optimized the queries, and the database is vacuumed
>> on a daily basis.
>> The stat function tells me that my index has aprox. 460 000 unique
>> words (I'm using stemmer and a nice stopword list).
>> The problem is performance, some queries take more than 10 seconds to
>> execute, and I'm not sure if my bottleneck is memory or io.
>> The server is a Athlon XP 2000, HD ATA133, 1.5 GB RAM running
>> postgresql 7.4.3 over freebsd 5.0 with lots of shared buffers and
>> sort_mem...
>>
>> Does anyone has an idea of a more cost eficient solution?
>> How to get a better performance without having to invest some
>> astronomicaly high amount of money?
>
>
> This isn't hardware related, but FreeBSD 5 is not a particularly
> impressive
> performer.  Especially 5.0 ... 5.2.1 would be better, but if you're
> shooting
> for performance, 4.9 will probably outperform both of them at this
> stage of
> the game.
>
> Something to consider if the query tuning that others are helping with
> doesn't
> solve the problem.  Follow through with that _first_ though.
>
> However, if you insist on running 5, make sure your kernel is compiled
> without
> WITNESS ... it speeds things up noticably.
>