[Typo3-dev] indexed_search - Performance Issue Questions

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Kasper Skårhøj wrote:

>Hi Georg and Christoph,
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>>- No simple way to really block indexing of access-restricted pages (so
>>not even page titles are shown if not logged in)
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>Sounds like something that should not be too hard to implement for an access 
>restricted page!
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>>- on some sites, indexing just doesn't work (for no apparent reason like
>>the usual "no_cache" problems...)
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>If you use the Admin panel with the TypoScript part open you will see the 
>reasons for not indexing is shown. There are always a reason.
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>>mnoGoSearch or DataParkSearch (mnoGo fork) seem to be the only OS
>>search/indexing engines that are capable of indexing UTF-8 content,
>>ht:dig fails because of this.
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>Indexed Search is completely UTF-8 compliant.
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>If the two reasons above is why you want another engine I think its not the 
>best arguments. Personally, I would rather like to see someone work actively 
>on tuning indexed search's performance.
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>- kasper
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Fully agreed on that.
Still I think that indexed search can never scale high if a site is 
thousands of pages and/or ten-thousands of documents.
In the past I have been implementing mnoGoSearch a couple of times. At 
the most i think I have been indexing around
80GB worth of documents (intranet inclusive office documents). On a 
simple server (1Gb, 1Ghz IDE disk, PostgreSQL) MnoGoSeach
could always give me the right documents in under a second, second 
searches with simular search words was often much faster.
Also I found MnoGoSearch quite smart in finding the right document and 
order...

BUT MnoGoSearch is more differcult to setup so it would be nice to have 
a good alternative for big sites who are willing to take
time and effort to set it up..
Am I right that Indexed search can scale up to around 10.000 pages on 
normal hardware (means no clusters,
no seperation between DB and web server etc...)

Also, MnoGoSearch is payware for windows, but free for nix*. But I 
assume that nost serious websites run on nix* hardware...

Ries