Re: [Koha-zebra] A few Zebra Questions

[Mike Taylor]

> Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 11:56:33 +0100
> From: Paul POULAIN <address@hidden>
>
>> Quite. Fortunately, it's dead easy to find the tipping point with the 
>> new Perl-Zoom API.
>> 
>> 1) Index a suitably large database -- I'd say a few million bib
>> records.
>> 2) Write a little Perl loop that randomly fetches one record using
>> a random barcode search or similar, changes it slightly (something
>> roughly equivalent to flipping a circ status bit, etc), and updates
>> it again.
>> 3) Run this, and see how it goes.
> 
> That's exactly what I plan to do [...]

That's great news -- we'll really look forward to the results.

> [...] and that's why I need help to make extended services work (see
> my question on this list as well as the -almost- same on zebra ml
> ;-))

BTW., I don't plan to reply to the one on the Zebra list, as it seemed
to be a subset of the questions on this list -- right?  If you have
any remaining issues from that mail, maybe you could re-ask them.

> (I have a real-life 100 000 items DB, not a million one. But the test 
> will be commited & joshua could try on a larger one ;-) )

Cool.

We need to get Adam onto this thread.

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