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Biggest possibility is that your search exceeds
your resources. It does a great deal of indexing in RAM and then writes it
to disk.
60k x 400 files is about 24Mb - which is huge for
64M RAM
Take a look at the directory at the size of the
files, if they are 8m or more that is most likely the problem. You would
probably be optimal with 2.5 Mb indexes.
Split out the search so that it collects a smaller
amount with each search, then on your search page put them all together -
name="indexname" value="index1 index2
index3"
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2002 12:05
PM
Subject: [sambar] Server Shutting Down
Unexpectedly {01}
I've trolled through the messages in the archive
and haven't found my problem listed to I thought I'd go ahead and try the
"group mind."
I've been running Sambar for my school for
several years, migrating through 4.X through 5.0. It has run
flawlessly. I was running 5.0 (http://senior.billings.k12.mt.us/) on
a Pentium 150 w/ 64 mb RAM. Not the most robust box but it works
well. I also run 4.4 on a second server (http://broncgeeks.billings..k12.mt.us/) with
similar hardware except that it's under Win98.
I recently decided to play with the search engine
on the box running 5.0 and attempted to index a few directories.
Each directory had 300-400 text files in them with each file being about 60K
in size. I was indexing them separately and the first couple directories
indexed OK but then the server would stop and hang. I look at the
desktop and I can see the Sambar icon in the tray next to the clock. I
move the cursor over it and it disappears.
I messed with the NT virtual memory setting a bit
and reindexed but had the same problems. I gave up and deleted the index
references in the search directory and in search.ini. I restart Sambar
and after a few minutes and a few hits, it shuts down. I tried upgrading
to 5.2 and had the same problems. When I upgraded I tried both "upgrade"
and a complete new installation. With the latter I manually configured
config.ini,etc. and then only thing I moved from the old installation were the
page counter files, password and group files, and the contents of my
CGI-BIN. I enabled Watcher but still have the same problem with it
shutting down after about 5 minutes.
Thinking that this might be an NT issue I moved
everything to a different machine (Win98) and have the same problem with
5.2. I used to run 4.4 on this machine so relaunched it and all is
well. Hmmm....
In the meantime I upgraded my 4.4 (http://broncgeeks.billings..k12.mt.us/)
machine to 5.2 and it runs fine. So, I copied 4.4 from it, put it back
on the NT machine, copied in my password, group, and CGI files, and now it
runs fine.
So, what I have I done wrong? It seems that
the search engine was the source of the problem. When setting up Sambar
from scratch or upgrading, if I bring over anything from the files that I did
that on the one that used the search engine it seems to bring the
problem with it.
Any clues?
Thanks,
Vince
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