Comments on: DSpace at a third of a million items

By: Mark Diggory

Mark Diggory — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:53:50 +0000

Stuart,

Even though your tests have finished in this area, I would make the following comment. Disabling the Browse and Search Event Consumers during the ingest process may lead to some very interesting results for comparison of if it is those systems where the most time is being spent on larger loads. Once those are disabled, calls to update the Browse and Search indexes would not happen (calling index-init afterward would rebuild the full index.

(Smells like a feature for a future release)

Cheers,
Mark

By: Abhi

Abhi — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:40:19 +0000

also there is no index file available in thar folder. i think it required build, if yes then what step i need to follow ???

By: Abhi

Abhi — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:23:41 +0000

Stuart, i have sword(was with Dspace). after that i downloaded sword-client-1.1 & sword-webapp-1.1. what next ?? i want to make my own deposite as well as service document.
could u pls tell me what the steps after deplyoing sword in [tomcat]/webapps/

By: Stuart

Stuart — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:01:31 +0000

As long as you are running DSpace 1.5 or above, then it comes as part of the distribution. When you compile DSpace, you’ll find a ’sword’ directory is created in [dspace]/webapps/ along with ‘jspui’, ‘xmlui’, ‘oai’ etc. You just need to deploy that webapp to [tomcat]/webapps/ like you do the others.

The service document can be found at http://dspace.your-server.com/sword/servicedocument and the deposit URL is http://dspace.your-server.com/sword/deposit/your-handle/collection-id (e.g. 12345676879/45)

By: Abhi

Abhi — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:22:36 +0000

one more thing Stuart, can we have any step by step installation procedure ???

By: Abhi

Abhi — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:21:12 +0000

Stuart, thanks once again for prompt reply. i downloaded the sword-client-1.1 & sword-webapp-1.1. so what next ? is there any build process like Dspace ,if yes pls let me know or just i have to placed in webapps folder of tomcat ??

pls guide me accordingly.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:18:16 +0000

SWORD is usually now part of the latest repository downloads. For example SWORD with DSpace is contained in the download and doesn’t need any configuration to get it to work.

By: Abhi

Abhi — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:43:14 +0000

Thanks a lot for such a useful information. i need ur expertise. could u pls tell me how to build or configure the sword….

By: Stuart

Stuart — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:20:26 +0000

Hi Luca,

The project has now finished so there won’t be any further tests run by the project.

I would image that other aspects of the system would suffer from performance issues (for example the db-backed browse system) before the Lucene search index suffers from problems. (but this is just a guess).

Thanks,

Stuart

By: Luca

Luca — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:36:43 +0000

Hi Stuart,

great post. Are you going to test retrival time also? Are there performance issues with Lucene search capabilities?

Thanks,
Luca.