Re^4: Running SuperSearch off a fast full-text index.

The cache-loading can be significant with large indexes, but is only felt once if you are working in a persistent environment (mod_perl, FastCGI)

Does this mean that for mod_perl running the prefork MPM, each child process needs to load the cache? That must use a lot of memory, no?

And how do you handle cache updates across all the child processes (whether they're on the same machine or different machines?

thanks

Clint

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Re^5: Running SuperSearch off a fast full-text index. by creamygoodness (Curate) on Jun 11, 2007 at 18:58 UTC
Does this mean that for mod_perl running the prefork MPM, each child process needs to load the cache? That must use a lot of memory, no? Yes, and KinoSearch is not thread safe. The memory requirements can be significant for large indexes, even though the data structures are not Perl's and attempts have been made to keep things compact. And how do you handle cache updates across all the child processes (whether they're on the same machine or different machines? A Searcher instance represents a snapshot of the index in time. Until you manually reload by creating a new Searcher, changes to the index are not visible. -- Marvin Humphrey Rectangular Research ― http://www.rectangular.com	[reply]
Re^6: Running SuperSearch off a fast full-text index. by clinton (Priest) on Jun 11, 2007 at 19:09 UTC
So maybe a reasonable solution would be: a separate mod_perl search server, which takes search requests from the web server and returns (eg) an XML or Soap list of IDs each child process checks (eg) a `last_cache_update` file once a minute to decide whether to reload the caches or not Clint	[reply] [d/l]
Re^7: Running SuperSearch off a fast full-text index. by creamygoodness (Curate) on Jun 11, 2007 at 19:23 UTC
Yes, that'll work. Tip: if you're fetching docs from a DB rather than from the index, you may want to turn off `stored` and `vectorized` for your fields to save disk space, though that will prevent you from using KinoSearch's built-in Highlighter. Those properties are on by default because disk space is cheap and stuff should be easy. -- Marvin Humphrey Rectangular Research ― http://www.rectangular.com	[reply] [d/l] [select]