SharePoint 2007 Enterprise Search: How find the time crawler spent on a site collection?

Question

Hi,

This is a repost of the following question:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointsearch/thread/1f30af39-eabd-430e-b642-f2ff7167bb34

I think the posted answer is not correct. I have the ULS logs for “MS Search Indexing” as Verbose. Going through all of the entries after a full crawl, still I cannot find how long does it take the crawler to index a complete site collection.

If ULS can actually show the time it takes to index a site collection, which exact ULS entries should I extract?

Thank you

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Hi Allan,

When crawling occurs we do not break it down to that granularity in the logs.

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Regards, Savoeurn Va Microsoft Online Community Support

Answer 3

Hi Savoeurn ,

What is the most granular break down that I can get?

Thank you,

Answer 4

Hi Allan,

In terms of breaking this down in 2007, we do not display items per sec as in 2010 in the GUI.  The closest thing would be from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee340949(v=office.12).aspx#BKMKMonitoringIndexServers in which you would need to use Perfmon.

One method you could potentially use to determine how a long a site collection takes to crawl is separate that site collection in its own content source and then crawl it.  Then calculate crawl rate based on elapse time and items found.   For the content source, you would have to use the “Crawl only the SharePoint site of each start address” option; else you will not be able to add the site correctly.

As for general info, pre SP2/IU updates in 2007, we did not have the functionality of the current search admin page where it showed the current stats in a little more detail.  

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Regards, Savoeurn Va Microsoft Online Community Support