Performance issue about text-sherlock HOT 5 CLOSED

Are you using the Xapian backend?

There is a small mention about performance considerations in the README under the Basic Setup and End-to-end Interface.

Basically review the two available backends.

Let me know if that helps.

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Hi Christopher,

Thanks for the quick reply! I'm using the default backend indeed.
I'll give xapian a try and let you know asap..

Thanks! (and a happy new year,btw! :-)

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I can't get the xapian backend working, I'm sorry.

Xapian eventually installed ok, sherlock actually tries to use it, but the db cannot be opened:

  File "/home/boris/text-sherlock/core/sherlock/backends/xapian_backend.py", line 63, in open_index
    self.index = xapian.WritableDatabase(path, xapian.DB_OPEN)
  File "/home/boris/text-sherlock/sherlock_env/lib/python3.4/site-packages/xapian/__init__.py", line 9151, in __init__
    _xapian.WritableDatabase_swiginit(self, _xapian.new_WritableDatabase(*args))
xapian.DatabaseOpeningError: /home/boris/text-sherlock/data/indexes/main/iamglass: Failed to open glass revision file for reading (No such file or directory)

I've added the following lines to local_settings.yml:

default_searcher: 'xapian'
default_indexer: 'xapian'
index_paths: '/crossminer/git_repos/'

Hum.. The index_paths directive doesn't seem to work either, but that's another problem I guess.

Any hint? Thanks a lot in advance to help me get that up and running..

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The folder /home/boris/text-sherlock/data/indexes/main/ exists, is writeable by the user. The file iamglass doesn't exist, though.

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My setup is probably too big, closing the issue for clarity's sake. Thanks for the support team, you're great! :-)

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