[Building Sakai] Who is using the Search Tool?

[Johns, Cheryl]

Ah ok.  We have about 1800 active sites per semester (including project sites) and we've been running for 5 years now, so that's a ton of sites to search.  We also have upwards of 1100+ concurrent users sometimes.

From: Adam Marshall [mailto:adam.marshall at oucs.ox.ac.uk]
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 9:45 AM
To: Johns, Cheryl; sakai-dev
Subject: RE: Who is using the Search Tool?

We generally have a peak of 400 concurrent users - 2000ish sites. (We're in the process of moving from another VLE so usage will grow.)

I think somebody once did suggest a separate server but so far there's been no problems.

adam

From: Johns, Cheryl [mailto:cheryl.johns at yale.edu]
Sent: 19 March 2010 13:24
To: Adam Marshall; sakai-dev
Subject: RE: Who is using the Search Tool?

Thanks Adam.

We have a cluster of 5 servers and run against an Oracle db.

I'm guessing we would have to have a separate server so as not to impact performance on our servers.

How large is your deployment?  How many courses, etc.?

From: Adam Marshall [mailto:adam.marshall at oucs.ox.ac.uk]
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 9:21 AM
To: Johns, Cheryl; sakai-dev
Subject: RE: Who is using the Search Tool?

no we have a cluster of 2 nodes and search just runs on each node. We use MySQL and AFS as the filestore.

adam

From: Johns, Cheryl [mailto:cheryl.johns at yale.edu]
Sent: 19 March 2010 13:15
To: Adam Marshall; sakai-dev
Subject: RE: Who is using the Search Tool?

I assume you have a separate Search server as well?

What kind of DB are you running against?

From: Adam Marshall [mailto:adam.marshall at oucs.ox.ac.uk]
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 9:14 AM
To: Johns, Cheryl; sakai-dev
Subject: RE: Who is using the Search Tool?

We use it. I assume it works for both DB and file system content. Our material is stored on the file system.

It's pretty good and we've added the 'search all my sites' option too.

We'd dearly love it to search ALL public documents as well but don't really have the time to add this functionality.

Adam



From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Johns, Cheryl
Sent: 19 March 2010 13:05
To: Developers Sakai-Dev
Subject: [Building Sakai] Who is using the Search Tool?

We're looking to investigate the Search tool and I've found some info on it from Ian Boston on Confluence.  Who is using it in practice?

Does it have the capability to even search documents that are stored on the file system or just database contents?

Cheryl Johns
Applications Support Manager, Instructional Solutions
http://cmi2.yale.edu
The Center for Media and Instructional Innovation
135 College Street, Suite 101
New Haven, CT  06510
Office: 1.203.436.4626

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