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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KHelpCenter + htdig
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-05-17 8:03:27
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On Thursday 17 May 2001 01:04, Andreas Pour wrote:
> Stephan Kulow wrote:
>
> [ ... ]
>
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I use swish++ (http://homepage.mac.com/pauljlucas/software/swish/) for
> > > the KDE mailing lists and it is quite fast even though the database is
> > > > 300MB and it does not require a database (though it does require
> > > mmap(2)
> >
> > does it require a database or not?
>
> Not a server; it builds its own (and mmaps it for quick indexed
> access).  It's threaded, too, so you can have multiple concurrent
> requests; it can index a file system; and it supports arbitrary META
> tags for tag searches (so the KDE documentation generator can create
> e.g. KEYWORD and other META tags for searching).  Also it has a daemon
> mode where you can send requests to the socket.  This means you can
> access it from a remote machine (if you enable this) or through a UNIX
> domain socket -- makes searches *very* quick.  Even without daemon mode
> a search on the kde-cvs mailing list with about 168,000 mails takes:
>
> time search -i maillist2.ind test
> [ 100 results snipped ]
> 0.03user 0.00system 0:00.02elapsed
That's all nice - if I wanted to index mailing lists.

Greetings, Stephan

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