SharePoint Indexing Performance Tuning Tips

David M. Sterling has written an excellent blog entry on tuning indexing performance.  I feel it’s very important and needs to be shared.  [Snippet below.]

There are many factors involved in the SharePoint crawling process that can impact indexing performance. There are also some steps you can take to improve that. Here are the common causes and their resolution:

1.  Indexing Performace is set at reduced
2.  Number of connections
3.  Crawled systems are slow or hosted on remote networks
4. Overlapping crawls
… and seven more.

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