Free - Text Indexing

I am looking at a problem about intense CPU processing during a Background
Free Text reindexing. This happens about every 5 minutes (scheduled).
The key problem, is we are looking at putting the free text element onto
another hard disk controller to minimise. Would putting the Free-Text onto
another hard disk controller be sufficient or does it need to be associated
with another CPU.
This is on SQL 2000 Enterprise
Any advice would be helpful
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Jack Vamvas
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What does your disk I/O look like? Is it higher that it should be? If not,
then adding another disk and controller probably won't solve your problem
(although it is a good idea anyway to isolate full text catalogs). If CPU is
your bottleneck and there are no other influencing issues such as bad
indexes, etc., then adding another server exclusively for full text indexing
is probably the solution.
Full text catalogs are notoriously resource intensive on SQL 2K. Supposely,
SQL 2005 has improved the performance significantly, but I haven't verified
it myself. Maybe upgrading to 2005 should be in the plan as well.
-- Bill
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>I am looking at a problem about intense CPU processing during a Background
>Free Text reindexing. This happens about every 5 minutes (scheduled).
> The key problem, is we are looking at putting the free text element onto
> another hard disk controller to minimise. Would putting the Free-Text onto
> another hard disk controller be sufficient or does it need to be
> associated with another CPU.
> This is on SQL 2000 Enterprise
> Any advice would be helpful
> --
> Jack Vamvas
> ___________________________________
> Advertise your IT vacancies for free at - http://www.ITjobfeed.com
>
>