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David Gerard wrote:
2008/4/23 Aerik Sylvan aerik@thesylvans.com:
Yes, I did a fulltext search (which works quite well - I forget the response times... I think it was around a third of a second even for intersections of large groups, like "Living_People") and the way it handles booleans and stuff is quite nice. I think I broke it when I moved servers, but I can put it back up. I think it would probably be a great addition to core, and would be very adequate for small wikis, but too slow for larger ones (performance at a few tenths of a second will really add up with tens or hundreds of hits...)
What's the actual rate of searches on en:wp?
At this moment, about 184 searches per second on all sites together, spread over 16 backend servers. (Not sure offhand which are just enwiki.)
http://ganglia.wikimedia.org/pmtpa/?m=search_rate&c=Search
- -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)