title: SQL Server 2008 Full Text Search - indexing is VERY SLOW
body: <p>I'm experimenting with full text search.  I have a 50 million row table with an xml field, and set up a full text search on it.  It's 2 days later now, and the indexing is STILL ONGOING.  It looks like it's not completely hung, and is continuing to index, but very, very slowly.   I based this on the fact that when I query the table, i get more results all the time.  Also, looking at the full text index properties (right-click on table in sql server management studio) the Full Text Docs Processed continues to go up</p>
  
  <p>Is this normal, for indxing to be so slow?  At this speed, it's not usable. I see no errors in the full text search log file.  Looking at the log file more carefully - I see that apparently when I created a half million row table and put the full text index on that, it took about 1 hour to index. So, extrapolating from that, it WOULD take about 100 hours to index my table.</p>
  
  <p>How can I speed this up?</p>
  
  <p>thanks for any input!
  Sylvia</p>