HELP! * GREY=local LOCAL HTML version of Foils prepared July 28,1995
Foil 29 Perfomance of Harvest -- Gatherer
From HPDC95 Web Search Presentation HPDC95 Pentagon City -- August 1,1995. byGeoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE
Server load efficiency:
scans objects periodically & builds cache
allows info to be retirieved in single stream
retrieving data via Harvest GathererŐs cache has 6,600 times less server loading than via local file system
Network traffic efficiency:
supports incremental updates
transmittal of only the content summary is 59 times faster than that of full-text indexes
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