Re: [aseek-users] Live Updates

[Kir Kolyshkin]

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

Before I run the indexer I look at the current stats:

../index -S

Now I know what I'm dealing with before I start. Then I run the
indexer:

../index -N 80 -R 64

When I want to stop the process I do (from another prompt of course):

../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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