Windows Search, 84% Faster on Vista SP1 and 26% Faster on XP SP3
section: windows, for your questions: KezNews forum, 20.11.2008
Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversBack at the start of June 2008, Microsoft introduced an upgrade for the search infrastructure of its Windows client and Server operating systems.
In this manner, the default search infrastructure of Windows Vista SP1, Windows XP SP3, but also Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2003 evolved to Windows Search 4.0. One of the most relevant aspects of the evolution from Windows Desktop Search 3.01 to Windows Search 4.0 is a consistent increase in performance.
According to Microsoft, Windows Vista Query Times are no less than 84% faster with WS 4.0 compared to WDS 3.01 on operating systems that were used for a period of time ahead of the test. On just booted machines, WS 4.0 still registered a superior performance, delivering results to queries up to 75% faster.
The same was valid for Windows XP, although when Vista's precursor was taken into consideration, hot machines delivered just a 26% improvement and cold computers just 21%.
For the test, Microsoft used an Intel Core2 Duo CPU E6750 @ 2.66GHz, with 2 GB of RAM and performed queries for items out of a total of 24,230 files placed in 2,326 directories. Microsoft defined a Cold query as "the first query after start of search service" and the Hot query as "any query following the cold query."
"Here are some general tips, and as you can see some of the improvements are only seen in Windows Vista: initial index build requires time; expect to index 20-40 items per second; WS4 rearranges the property store indices supporting fast query; incremental Indexing; File System is scanned on startup; most changes handled through notifications; Smart Indexer Back-off; keyboard and mouse use; high CPU utilization; high I/O; low Pri I/O (Vista only) and Power Mgmt (Vista only)," revealed Microsoft technical specialist Matt Hester.
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Comments(4)
quit using % signs in urls. they have to be coded with %37
the first feature i liked about vista was the windows search bar.... it would find what i
wanted usually before i even finished typing the word.
it still misses tons of stuff, and is extremely slow if you have a lot of files. they
need to fix this sh1t in the next windows version
well i have tried vista time after time and always wind up going back to xp sp3.
furthermore i have yet to see anything close to the speed comparisons indicated in this
article. i think it is misleading and totally, a server specific comparison.
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