Ferret talk - May 2007 - What is the day to day maintenance requirements of ferret?

What should I be doing to maintain ferret and help prevent index
corruption?

Do I need to rebuild it manually every night/week/day?

-- 
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 12:09:28AM +0200, Scott wrote:
> What should I be doing to maintain ferret and help prevent index
> corruption?
> 
> Do I need to rebuild it manually every night/week/day?
Usually you don''t have to rebuild the index in regular intervals to
prevent index corruption.

To maintain high performance, regular optimizing makes sense. How often
that is useful depends on your usage pattern (frequent updates ->
frequent optimizations).

That being said, if you have the CPU cycles and space, regular rebuilds
won''t hurt and will ensure your index always matches your database.


Jens

-- 
Jens Kr?mer
webit! Gesellschaft f?r neue Medien mbH
Schnorrstra?e 76 | 01069 Dresden
Telefon +49 351 46766-0 | Telefax +49 351 46766-66
kraemer at webit.de | www.webit.de
 
Amtsgericht Dresden | HRB 15422
GF Sven Haubold, Hagen Malessa

I guess I am coming from a Database thoughts, and with indexes, you need 
to maintain them over time.

The other reason I ask, our search using ferret and aaf seems to lock up 
about once a week for us.  Rebuilding the index fixes the problem.  If I 
start and stop rails and mongrel, it does not fix it the only thing that 
causes the lock up is a search.

Thanks for you reply

Jens Kraemer wrote:
> On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 12:09:28AM +0200, Scott wrote:
>> What should I be doing to maintain ferret and help prevent index
>> corruption?
>> 
>> Do I need to rebuild it manually every night/week/day?
> 
> Usually you don''t have to rebuild the index in regular intervals
to
> prevent index corruption.
> 
> To maintain high performance, regular optimizing makes sense. How often
> that is useful depends on your usage pattern (frequent updates ->
> frequent optimizations).
> 
> That being said, if you have the CPU cycles and space, regular rebuilds
> won''t hurt and will ensure your index always matches your
database.
> 
> 
> Jens
> 
> --
> Jens Kr?mer
> webit! Gesellschaft f?r neue Medien mbH
> Schnorrstra?e 76 | 01069 Dresden
> Telefon +49 351 46766-0 | Telefax +49 351 46766-66
> kraemer at webit.de | www.webit.de
> 
> Amtsgericht Dresden | HRB 15422
> GF Sven Haubold, Hagen Malessa

-- 
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.