[Koha-devel] search speed

Fridolin SOMERS fridolin.somers at biblibre.com
Thu May 28 09:43:40 CEST 2015


Could this mean one should not get records from Zebra but directly from 
database ? If getting the id of search results without getting the full 
record is possible.

Le 27/05/2015 21:02, Paul A a écrit :
> At 08:29 PM 5/27/2015 +0200, Gaetan Boisson wrote:
>> Well as i said, the time is not the same depending on the number of
>> results, but in both cases, the number of results is anyway much
>> higher than the number of records taken into consideration for facets.
>>
>> Your investigation indicates that:
>>
>> In ZOOM->record, the time is spent in
>>   my $_rec = Net::Z3950::ZOOM::resultset_record($this->_rs(), $which);
>>
>> Maybe it's worth having a deeper look in this.
>
> I looked into this to some extent in January this year; facets in 3.18
> <http://navalmarinearchive.com/z_koha/search_speed_data.html> appeared
> to be a limiting factor as it "swamped" one CPU core (and NYProf showed
> this to be from ZOOM - see
> <http://navalmarinearchive.com/z_koha/nytprof_318_s/index.html>
>
> Regards -- Paul
>
>
>> Le 27/05/2015 12:56, Jonathan Druart a écrit :
>>> Gaetan,
>>> have a look at the metrics on bug 13665.
>>>
>>> 2015-05-27 11:45 GMT+01:00 Gaetan Boisson <gaetan.boisson at biblibre.com>:
>>>>   Hello again all,
>>>>
>>>> looking at speed issues there is one thing that i don't understand,
>>>> and i
>>>> feel some well versed developpers might have a better idea of what is
>>>> happening.
>>>>
>>>> If you query zebra directly on the server, it's blazingly fast, no
>>>> matter
>>>> how big your database and how many results you get. (At least the
>>>> difference
>>>> is negligible, and we still get very low response times.)
>>>>
>>>> But if you do a search in Koha that brings 20 000 results, it's
>>>> usualy 4
>>>> times faster (maybe more, sorry i don't have precise metrics here)
>>>> than a
>>>> search that brings up 1 000 000 results.
>>>>
>>>> Is it consistent with your experience?
>>>>
>>>> If it is, what would be the reason for this? My understanding is
>>>> that the
>>>> search code asks zebra for the first n records to display on the
>>>> first page,
>>>> and that facets are based on a number of result way below 20 000
>>>> anyway, so
>>>> the total number of results shouldn't really make a difference.
>>>>
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