How long does indexing take for whole library?

Hello everyone. This is my first post and I am still in the downloading/installation process. Am I in the correct forum for installation help? I signed in to the forum for install help, but it seems the different forums given me lead to the same place. I realize in asking this question about time for indexing, that it certainly depends on the size of your library. But can someone give me an approximate average time per item or per 10 or 50 items? At this rate it seems it will take a week.

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Phil Gons (Logos)

Welcome, Ronald. You're in the right place.

What are your computer specs? Indexing time will vary significantly based on the speed of your computer.
How many resources do you have?
How long has it been indexing?

Even with a very slow machine and thousands of resources, it probably shouldn't take a week.

Ronald Lee Curry

Thanks Phil. I am presently installing on a Dell Inspiron 8500 Laptop with only 512 MB of RAM and a 60 GB Hard Drive which is 58% empty, so I have a good amount of unused Hard Drive left. I do have a large library though. I was watching the rate at which the indexed resources remaining dropped, and it seems like it takes several minutes for each item. I am guessing 10 minutes or so for each one. Do you think this sounds normal? It may very well be ok but it just seemed like that is a long time for each item to be indexed.

Ronald Lee Curry

Phil, one more thing, I probably should have told you that my clock speed is 2.2 GHZ too.

Jason

Thanks Phil. I am presently installing on a Dell Inspiron 8500 Laptop with only 512 MB of RAM and a 60 GB Hard Drive which is 58% empty, so I have a good amount of unused Hard Drive left. I do have a large library though. I was watching the rate at which the indexed resources remaining dropped, and it seems like it takes several minutes for each item. I am guessing 10 minutes or so for each one. Do you think this sounds normal? It may very well be ok but it just seemed like that is a long time for each item to be indexed.

You need more RAM for this to work well. I think minimum was 1GB RAM. I found not doing anything else and having background programs off helped speed up the process.

Ronald Lee Curry

Yes Jason, I saw that 1GB of RAM requirement in FAQ's before I started and had forgotten. I will add more RAM as soon as I can get it ordered and received, but will just have to live with it until I get that RAM. I needed the added RAM anyway and this is just a good reason to go ahead and get it. I appreciate your 'patience' reminder from Ephesians too.

DominicM

I have has a problem on my netbook, my main PC and Netbook have same resources, PC took 5 hours, Netbook is still running and is 12 hrs+ plus the index is larger on the net book than the PC already, gonna delete beta and retry I think

Phil Gons (Logos)

Thanks Phil. I am presently installing on a Dell Inspiron 8500 Laptop with only 512 MB of RAM and a 60 GB Hard Drive which is 58% empty, so I have a good amount of unused Hard Drive left. I do have a large library though. I was watching the rate at which the indexed resources remaining dropped, and it seems like it takes several minutes for each item. I am guessing 10 minutes or so for each one. Do you think this sounds normal? It may very well be ok but it just seemed like that is a long time for each item to be indexed.

Ronald, I installed Logos 4 on a 5-year-old Dell Inspiron 5150 with 2GB of RAM and 4,000–5,000 resources, and it took about 36 hours to finish everything.

Damian McGrath

36 HOURS?????? Wow???

Phil what are the plans re indexing? I'm not clear based on what I've read so far. Surely it's a hard selling point to invite people to upgrade to a program that will take as long as 36 hours?

My netbook is on its third run through of indexing. I don't know if I would have begun if I'd know that "very long time" actually may equal well more than a day.

Ronald Lee Curry

I started this thread and made my last entry here before my system had finished installing and indexing all resources. I have had several "tryanny of the urgent" episodes since then and am just getting back to update. I am not a whiz-bang on personal computers, but look forward to contributing all I can here. Now back to business of Logos 4. I was ignorant of the fact that if I stopped while indexing that I would have to start all over, and messed that one up. After starting over on indexing, my computer took between 19 and 24 hours to complete the indexing with 4508 resources. I say between, because it finished indexing after I personally crashed and had to get some sleep after working on installation and indexing for much of the previous 24 hours before that. I do have 2 GB of RAM ordered to upgrade and max out RAM from my present 512 MB of RAM and will install it as soon as I get it. Now, finally I get to participate some.