From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net (William Morgan) Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 06:39:12 -0700 Subject: [sup-talk] sup-sync and xapian memory usage In-Reply-To: <1252350896-sup-5026@zyrg.net> References: <20090907170450.GO14010@pimlott.net> <1252348258-sup-415@zyrg.net> <1252350686-sup-8800@ntdws12.chass.utoronto.ca> <1252350896-sup-5026@zyrg.net> Message-ID: <1252415772-sup-7288@masanjin.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