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@@ -141,7 +141,11 @@ For some functionality, you will also need the following extensions: server to store the data in. - Mailparse. Efficient parsing of email requires this extension. Submission by email or SMS-over-email uses this extension. - +- Sphinx Search. A client for the sphinx server, an alternative + to MySQL or Postgresql fulltext search. You will also need a + Sphinx server to serve the search queries. + + You will almost definitely get 2-3 times better performance from your site if you install a PHP bytecode cache/accelerator. Some well-known examples are: eaccelerator, Turck mmcache, xcache, apc. Zend Optimizer @@ -590,6 +594,22 @@ backups of a working Laconica system by backing up the database and the Web directory. To backup the database use mysqldump (http://ur1.ca/7xo) and to backup the Web directory, try tar. +Sphinx +------ + +To use a Sphinx server to search users and notices, you also need +to install, compile and enable the sphinx pecl extension for php on the +client side, which itself depends on the sphinx development files. +"pecl install sphinx" should take care of that. Add "extension=sphinx.so" +to your php.ini and reload apache to enable it. + +You can update your MySQL or Postgresql databases to drop their fulltext +search indexes, since they're now provided by sphinx. + +On the sphinx server side, a script reads the main database and build +the keyword index. A cron job reads the database and keeps the sphinx +indexes up to date. + Upgrading ========= @@ -931,6 +951,17 @@ enabled: Set to true to enable. Default false. server: a string with the hostname of the memcached server. Can also be an array of hostnames, if you've got more than one server. +sphinx +------ + +You can get a significant boost in performance using Sphinx Search +instead of your database server to search for users and notices. +(http://sphinxsearch.com/). + +enabled: Set to true to enable. Default false. +server: a string with the hostname of the sphinx server. +port: an integer with the port number of the sphinx server. + integration ----------- |