Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list gopher); Tue, 07 Jan 2003 07:14:08 -0600 (CST) Return-Path: <spectre@stockholm.ptloma.edu> Delivered-To: gopher@complete.org Received: from stockholm.ptloma.edu (stockholm.ptloma.edu [199.106.86.50]) by gesundheit.complete.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EA6864541 for <gopher@complete.org>; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 07:14:07 -0600 (CST) Received: (from spectre@localhost) by stockholm.ptloma.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id FAA23794 for gopher@complete.org; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 05:23:57 -0800 From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre@stockholm.ptloma.edu> Message-Id: <200301071323.FAA23794@stockholm.ptloma.edu> Subject: [gopher] V-2 status report To: gopher@complete.org Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 05:23:57 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL39 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-archive-position: 716 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: gopher-bounce@complete.org Errors-to: gopher-bounce@complete.org X-original-sender: spectre@stockholm.ptloma.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: gopher@complete.org List-help: <mailto:ecartis@complete.org?Subject=help> List-unsubscribe: <mailto:gopher-request@complete.org?Subject=unsubscribe> List-software: Ecartis version 1.0.0 List-ID: Gopher <gopher.complete.org> X-List-ID: Gopher <gopher.complete.org> List-subscribe: <mailto:gopher-request@complete.org?Subject=subscribe> List-owner: <mailto:jgoerzen@complete.org> List-post: <mailto:gopher@complete.org> List-archive: <http://www.complete.org/mailinglists/archives/> X-list: gopher

Since Veronica-2 has been (apparently ;-) inactive, here's a status report.

The major problem has been getting enough hardware to throw at the thing, which is a definite stumbling block since a) I'm a starving student and b) I have expensive tastes in computing architecture ;-)

Right now, it runs on a severely overworked PowerPC 604e/200 which also has about nine billion other things to do and considering the workload I shove on the box I'm surprised it hasn't folded yet. V-2 consumes a major portion of that machine's CPU time.

So, V-2's crawler is offline pending a rewrite to allow better incremental database changes, and the search engine is also being rewritten.

In the near future (read three months or so), I might be acquiring a stack of G3 systems at very low cost -- if you haven't noticed, I have a PPC bias -- and Veronica-2 will be moved to those systems and hopefully clustered for improved response.

Things are afoot as always :-)

-- ----------------------------- personal page: http://www.armory.com/~spectre/ -- Cameron Kaiser, Point Loma Nazarene University * ckaiser@stockholm.ptloma.edu -- Coffee. Delight. Border. May I see your passport please? -- Firesign Theater