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Huge Difference Between GSA SER and Platform Identifier - Need Advice

AnonymousAnonymous
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Hey guys

I have a site list that I’ve processed in both GSA SER and Platform Identifier. With GSA SER, I got close to 3 million identified, while with Platform Identifier, I only got 712k.

The thing is, GSA SER takes me 7–10 days to process this list, while Platform Identifier usually takes 1–2 days with 5000 threads. This is really driving me mad because I can’t wait 10 days just to sort a list that's why I bought PI.

My question is: why is there such a huge difference? I would expect the results to be at least close, not off by millions. Which one should I trust more?

Any insights would be appreciated.







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  • SvenSven www.GSA-Online.de
    SER sorts it in to all matching engines where PI is only adding it to the most closest.
    I have already revisited the code to optimise it, but I really can not find any bottleneck.
  • AnonymousAnonymous
    edited November 15
    Hi @Sven

    I just tested GSA Platform Identifier again using the same settings as above, this time with 1000 threads, and the results are only slightly higher — from around 13% to 16% identified.

    However, I noticed something strange:

    The status bar says 100% finished, but PI keeps running for 5+ hours without actually processing any new URLs. It just sits there. Is this a bug?

    At this point, I’m not sure how to proceed anymore.


    I can’t wait for SER to process lists for 7–10 days, but PI gives far fewer results. And I really don’t want to import the raw list directly into SER and waste time/resources processing engines it can’t even post to.

    But right now it feels like I have no choice because PI isn’t finishing properly and SER takes way too long.

    Any advice on how to handle this would be appreciated.



  • SvenSven www.GSA-Online.de
    I will revisit the code next week and see if there is some more room to optimise things in SER.
  • royalmiceroyalmice WEBSITE: ---> https://asiavirtualsolutions.com | SKYPE:---> asiavirtualsolutions
    @Anonymous


    Can you try with the settings below, with 5000 or even 1000 - You are just causing bottlenecks.

    Also, make sure to export the engines from GSA SER and paste them into the engines folder of GSA PI - overwriting existing. GSA SER engines are updated more often than GSA PI, and if you use SERNUKE, their engines are not in GSA PI by default. You will find the export in GSA SER under the Advance Tab \ Misc. (See screenshot below.)







  • googlealchemistgooglealchemist Anywhere I want
    edited November 21
    Sven said:
    SER sorts it in to all matching engines where PI is only adding it to the most closest.
    I have already revisited the code to optimise it, but I really can not find any bottleneck.
    i wasnt aware of this difference. what was the reasoning behind making it like this? if we get an identifcation in pi for a wordpress article site, or a wordpress blog comment...we would miss one or the other? or a forum that does public topic posts and contextual profiles, we would miss one or the other?

    i was just re reading a related post and @sickseo was saying he uses it, and it works, for this purpose unless im misunderstanding one or both of you? https://forum.gsa-online.de/discussion/comment/196849/#Comment_196849
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