From: wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net (William Morgan)
Subject: [sup-talk] sup-sync and xapian memory usage
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 06:39:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1252415772-sup-7288@masanjin.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1252350896-sup-5026@zyrg.net>
Reformatted excerpts from Rich Lane's message of 2009-09-07:
> 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.
Good to know. Is there a way to force a flush in Xapian? Just curious.
The delay is a little scary sometimes. Maybe it just needs an
appropriate message somewhere.
--
William <wmorgan-sup at masanjin.net>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-08 13:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-07 17:04 Andrew Pimlott
2009-09-07 18:14 ` Ben Walton
2009-09-07 18:33 ` Rich Lane
2009-09-07 19:11 ` Ben Walton
2009-09-07 19:15 ` Rich Lane
2009-09-08 13:39 ` William Morgan [this message]
2009-09-08 13:58 ` Ben Walton
2009-09-08 14:27 ` Richard Heycock
2009-09-08 15:14 ` Nicolas Pouillard
2009-09-09 6:18 ` Rich Lane
2009-09-07 19:26 ` Andrew Pimlott
2009-09-08 13:15 ` William Morgan
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