Article ID: 975532 - Last Review: November 12, 2009 - Revision: 1.0

You encounter performance problems when you run a crawl on a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site

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SYMPTOMS

When you run a crawl on a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site, the crawl lasts for several days. This problem occurs when there are approximately 220 or more index files, and the index files are not being merged.
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RESOLUTION

To resolve this issue, apply the following updates:
  • 975002  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975002/ ) Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Cumulative Update Server Hotfix Package (Sts-x-none.msp): October 27, 2009
  • 975731  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975731/ ) Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 Cumulative Update Server Hotfix Package (Coreserver-x-none.msp): October 27, 2009
Note This update works in a SharePoint Server farm environment, but this update does not work in a SharePoint stand-alone installation.
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STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.
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APPLIES TO
  • Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
  • Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
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