[Xapian-discuss] preformance issue

[Arjen van der Meijden]

On 23-12-2006 4:20 Olly Betts wrote:
>> database total terms count:1,954,698
>> num of Docs: 470,000 (approx 30-300 terms per doc)
>>
>> postlist_DB file size: 1.3G
>> position_DB file size: 2.8G
>> record_DB file size: 4.6G
>> termlist_DB file size: 1.1G
>>
>> i wonder the 1,954,698 terms in my DB is normal or too much garbage?
> 
> Sounds reasonable enough (Gmane has nearly 40 million unique terms!)

Isn't the record table normally smaller than position?

Best regards,

Arjen