From: "Geo." 

I don't know what his data looked like, but a PII/400 can index the entire
canopus archive in about 12 hours so..

Geo. (that's almost a million posts actually 2.5g of data on the drive it's indexing)

"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
news:3fad2c3e$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> >running with either a slow cpu or a slow disk
>
> No, he never got the disk indexed to see how well it worked.  He stopped
the
> indexing after four days of rattle, rattle.  To be fair, indexing the
indices
> of a MySQL database may not have been what the indexer is optimized for
(g).
>

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