Good Write-up on SharePoint 2010 Search Configuration

The following is a really good write-up on how to configure SharePoint 2010 search crawl databases, crawl components, host distribution, and more.  It’s valuable information to know about how search works in SharePoint 2010.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/russmax/archive/2010/04/16/search-2010-architecture-and-scale-part-1-crawl.aspx