2009-11-03 16:57:39 -08:00
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You can get a significant boost in performance using Sphinx Search
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instead of your database server to search for users and notices.
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<http://sphinxsearch.com/>.
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Configuration
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In StatusNet's configuration, you can adjust the following settings
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under 'sphinx':
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2016-01-22 16:01:24 +00:00
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enabled: Set to true to enable. Default true.
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server: a string with the hostname of the sphinx server. Default localhost
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port: an integer with the port number of the sphinx server. Default 3312
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2009-11-03 16:57:39 -08:00
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Requirements
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To use a Sphinx server to search users and notices, you also need
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to install, compile and enable the sphinx pecl extension for php on the
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client side, which itself depends on the sphinx development files.
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"pecl install sphinx" should take care of that. Add "extension=sphinx.so"
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to your php.ini and reload apache to enable it.
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You can update your MySQL or Postgresql databases to drop their fulltext
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search indexes, since they're now provided by sphinx.
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You will also need a Sphinx server to serve the search queries.
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On the sphinx server side, a script reads the main database and build
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the keyword index. A cron job reads the database and keeps the sphinx
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indexes up to date. scripts/sphinx-cron.sh should be called by cron
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every 5 minutes, for example. scripts/sphinx.sh is an init.d script
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to start and stop the sphinx search daemon.
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Server configuration
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scripts/gen_config.php can generate a sphinx.conf file listing MySQL
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data sources for your databases. You may need to tweak paths afterwards.
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$ plugins/SphinxSearch/scripts/gen_config.php > sphinx.conf
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If you wish, you can build a full config yourself based on sphinx.conf.sample
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