[KinoSearch] getting total hits before a seek

[Henka]

> Using v0.15 (still)
>
> I have a pretty healthy document collection (around 15 million) that gets
> moderate traffic (260k searches a day) and have been working on
> improving performance as searches have crept into the >1s range.

You can also try out Marvin's distributed multi-index search facility (an
extension to 0.15 I think - Marv can provide more details).  For an index
of your size (~61% of ours) splitting the index into smaller chunks over
several search nodes might be a good idea.

However, Marvin *did* say that 0.20.x might not require this... :-)
Unless, of course, the search load requires it - 260,000 searches a day is
quite a bit.  Spread the load, as we intend to.