[Zope] ZCTextIndex question

[Chris Withers]

Jonathan Hobbs wrote:

> I have a ZCatalog that has grown to about 6.3Gb in size and as a result no
> longer fits in memory - resulting in a severe degradation in performance (a
> search that used to take less than 2 cpu seconds, now takes 5-14 cpu
> seconds).  Is there any way to 'extract' a single index from the ZCatalog (a
> ZCTextIndex) and hold it in memory to improve search retrieval performance ?
> 
> Also, because we are using the OkapiIndex relevance ranking process, we will
> need to hold the Lexicon in memory.  Has anyone tried/accomplished this?
> 
> Hoping there is a solution...

Try ZODB mount points, moutn the index and the lexicon in a seperate 
storage...

cheers,

Chris

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