From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: rlane@club.cc.cmu.edu (Rich Lane)
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:15:08 -0400
Subject: [sup-talk] sup-sync and xapian memory usage
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Excerpts from Ben Walton's message of Mon Sep 07 15:11:58 -0400 2009:
> Excerpts from Rich Lane's message of Mon Sep 07 14:33:06 -0400 2009:
> > Xapian keeps writes buffered in memory. Try setting the environment
> > variable XAPIAN_FLUSH_THRESHOLD to a smaller value (the default is 10000
> > documents) and see if that helps.
> 
> Does this explain the lag at shutdown?  Xapian is flushing writes to
> disk?

Yep.