I want to start out saying thanks for the replies.


The machine could stand to be upgraded. It is a Pentium II 233 with 128 megs
of ram.  The point of the web interface is to give access to the archive to
people who do not  belong or have immediate access to the list.

What I was hoping for is a way to configure our version 1.8 to only display
the first X amount of matches as it finds them. I do not know if this is how
list already does that. The way it appears to me is the search performs the
query against the whole archive counts the matches then displays only the
first 50, which would be very slow.  I was hoping I could speed this up by
not performing the query against the whole archive before it returns only
the first 50.

John

----- Original Message -----
From: Nathan Brindle <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 1999 8:25 PM
Subject: Re: Web Archive Performance


> Which doesn't solve the underlying problem if the machine is underpowered
> to begin with.  Both methods use the same functions internally to do the
> search, it's only the input method and presentation of results that's
> different.  The search itself is what takes the majority of the resources.
>
> On Tue, 9 Nov 1999 20:27:31 -0600 Winship said:
> >You might want to consider using email searching rather than web;
> >I find it much handier and more reliable, particularly if you have
> >an extensive archive and a largish number wanting to web search.
> >With email you send your search, go on about your business rather
> >sitting and waiting, and the output comes when it comes, usually
> >pretty quickly if you construct your search properly.
> >
> >Douglas
>


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