Re: last days of htdig

[Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>]

On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 03:45:26PM -0400, Matthew Galgoci wrote:
>On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 03:18:10AM -0400, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
>> >There's been no update since 2003-07-31; that's when some file
>> >passed 2G and it all fell apart, save for the existing DB.  I'm
>> >going to try to exclude parts of gcc.gnu.org from indexing,
>> >probably some mailing lists.  Just so you know when the machine
>> >slows down. :-)  If that doesn't work, I think I'm just going to
>> >leave it.  No fun in that, and anyway it doesn't seem a critical
>> >function anymore.
>> >
>> >(Chris, what happened to the mnogosearch initiative?)
>> 
>> Matt, are you reading this?  Want to take a stab at moving to
>> mnogosearch?
>
>Sure. I think we can do that.

Well, that's a relief.

>> I think we've already been over this ground, HP, but couldn't we
>> just recompile htdig on the new kernel to bypass the 2G limit?
>
>Ewwwwww....

?  I said "kernel" when I really meant glibc but it could have been a
real simple way to get things working quickly.

cgf