question on performance evaluation of beagle's indexing

["Nitin Agrawal" <nitina a gmail com>]

Hi,

I have been using beagle for a research project
related to search index performance (time to build, 
size of index) on realistic file systems (with the right 
distribution of files and directories, file sizes, types etc).
Also looking at cost of different indexing options 
and its sensitivity to file system content.

One goal of my work is to help application designers
understand the impact of realistic file systems on their
application's performance, and also to enable making
the right design decisions.

I was wondering how you currently evaluate beagle's
index performance, and decide on tradeoffs between
different indexing options? Do you have some sort of 
in-house case base of test file systems? 

thanks for your time,
Nitin

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Nitin Agrawal
PhD student
University of Wisconsin Madison