Paul Lucas (plucas@frost.com)
Thu, 26 Mar 1998 16:03:07 -0800
Hello all,
I hope that this is not a FAQ, I could not find it in the list
archives.
I have a system which contains 500,000+ short documents which is
growing fast and a poorly formulated search (a single common word),
can generate more than 100,000 matches and take several minutes to
respond - when the server does not just time out.
As no one ever goes beyond the first few dozen I am trying to find a
way to limit the number of matches and/or pages of matches that are
returned to something more sensible.
The search_results_header and footer sections of the configuration
file format reference document mention a variable MAX_MATCHES which is
different from MATCHES and contains the number of maximum displayed
matches. This sounds like it might be useful but I cannot find any
other reference to it and although I tried setting
max_matches: 200
in the configuration file it did not make any difference.
Does anyone know how to use this, or any other method, to limit the
number of matches that are returned.
I am not a C programmer and a systems provider has modified our
program to interface it with a document permissions database so I am
not sure how standard our version is or how easy it would be to apply
a patch.
Thanks in advance,
Paul Lucas
Frost & Sullivan
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