From: Kir Kolyshkin (no email)
Date: Mon Dec 30 2002 - 04:28:37 EST
Searcher wrote:
> Thanks for all the replies.
>
> Is it best to just do a few hours at a time, then ./index -E / ./index -D then
> restart again ./index -N 50 -R 50? In other words, just doing a bit at a time as
> opposed to doing the entire run in one shot?
This is how we done it as aspseek.com - just have a couple of entries in
crontab which makes a process fully automatic. index works for about a
week, then index -E, index -D runs, and the process continues. So, we have
a freshly updated searchable database every week. This process can be
performed at a different intervals, say, beeweekly, monthly or every day -
it's up to you to decide.
> I was also asking if anyone knew about the behaviour of making changes
in the conf
> file. I got a lot of good answers, but nothing on this one :). When I make changes
> to the conf file, are they taken into account right away or only after everything
> is done or I use ./index -E to quit then restart?
aspseek.conf is read by 'index' binary upon the startup, and the only way
to re-read it again is to restart 'index'.
> It would be *great* if it were live because then we could fine tune everything as
> it's working and never really have to stop anything unless you had a reason to.
> Mike
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>>Before I run the indexer I look at the current stats:
>>
>>../index -S
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>>Now I know what I'm dealing with before I start. Then I run the
>>indexer:
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>>../index -N 80 -R 64
>>
>>When I want to stop the process I do (from another prompt of course):
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>>../index -E
>>
>>Then I build the deltas:
>>
>>../index -D
>>
>>I then do what ever and again check the stats:
>>
>>../index -S
>>
>>I then compare my figures. Next I restart the process:
>>
>>../index -N 80 -R 64
>>
>>and things work as expected without restarting from the begining.
>>
>>One time it did start all over. In fact indexer was in a loop. The
>>reason was that I had the "Period" in aspseek.conf incorrectly used.
>>I mixed "M"inutes with "m"onth which instead of reindexing every
>>month like I thought, I set it to reindex every minute which caused
>>everything to loop. Other than that the indexing worked OK. Sure I
>>have other problems as does most everyone else does I'm sure, but
>>not the problem you are having.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Karen
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