Roy, any word on your server specs? Does anyone else have an index of XML records for their catalog? If so, how well equipped is your server? I am concerned that an extremely large XML index will need LOTS of RAM. Thanks Andrew Roy Tennant wrote: > Short answer now, longer/better answer next week when someone gets > back in the office. We have 4.5 million records indexed at the > moment, but have had up to 9 million indexed. Our dev system runs on > a Unix server (specs to come) that runs other apps as well. I'm not > sure if we can share the crude search interface so you can judge the > response, but will try to find out. > Roy > > On Dec 2, 2005, at 12:36 PM, Andrew Nagy wrote: > >> Roy Tennant wrote: >> >>> Andrew, just as an additional data point, we have millions of records >>> indexed in our Lucene-based XTF system, and the response isn't too >>> bad even on a development server. >> >> >> Can you and others on this list briefly describe your hardware >> platform >> for this? I am assuming this is not running on an old 486 that is >> lying >> around in your office :) >> >> Do you feel that the searching is processor intensive and may be best >> suited for a load balanced infrastructure? I am implementing my pilot >> using eXist which stores the XML Database in B Trees which from my >> knowledge is an in memory data structure so therefor the machine would >> need lots of ram however I am curious as to the processing >> requirements. >> >> Thanks, you guys rock! >> >> Andrew >>