On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 08:49:17PM +0800, Alex Neth wrote: [..] > 2) Can I keep a second index so that it doesn't get locked during > optimization and then switch to the optimized index? Perhaps the index > is not really locked and it is just using all the CPU? (I am using a > single CPU server)?
If you're already indexing in batches, keeping a second read-only index for searching is a good idea. rsync is useful to keep the search-index up to date in this case. To check if CPU usage is a problem, try lowering the optimizing process' priority and see how it goes. Jens -- Jens Krämer http://www.jkraemer.net/ - Blog http://www.omdb.org/ - The new free film database _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk

