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We've had some catastrophic filesystem failures that have left us with corrupted databases with empty files and no backup for about 15TB of our data. Recreating the 15TB from source data backups is possible but will take a very very long time. I'm hoping that, given all of the .DB files are still intact, there my be some way to extract their contents and rebuild the other tables. This

Most Xapian database files are locked while the database is open, but it seems that .baseA and .baseB files are not, so any other application can delete them (I am talking about the Windows package). Is there a way to protect them as rest of the Xapian database files? Regards, PK

Xapians, I am maintaining about two indexes for my search engines which approximately is each the same size. I would like to share this knowledge with you, since many of you have never seen Xapian index of this size. And of course you can search the index by yourself at - http://myhealthcare.com/ - http://find1friend.com/ I need 2 x 100 million more documents into each index, and I hope it will

I've just noticed that new indexes no longer have position.{DB,baseA,baseB} files, all previous indexes (I roll indexes every week using xapian-compact) have the position files. The index seems to work but it is returning some odd results, for example if I run a query with the phrase "machine learning" it mostly returns documents containing "machine learning" but it also

I took one of the examples and tried to run against my database ls -l /data1/mail/db/cur.1 total 1129624 -rw-r--r-- 1 jwl jwl 0 2011-06-09 02:27 flintlock -rw-r--r-- 1 jwl jwl 28 2011-06-09 02:27 iamchert -rwxrwxrwx 1 jwl jwl 7258 2011-06-09 02:27 position.baseA -rwxrwxrwx 1 jwl jwl 7046 2011-06-09 02:27 position.baseB -rwxrwxrwx 1 jwl jwl 474226688 2011-06-09 02:28

Folks, Having trouble getting this to work. OMEGA cgi is not reading my stub file properly because it is trying to read it as a directory instead of a file. Is there an easy fix? Here is a transcript. Thanks, OSC oscar@epsilon:/svr/xapian/beta$ ls -aFl total 21335200 drwxr-xr-x 2 oscar oscar 4096 Aug 6 10:15 ./ drwxr-xr-x 5 oscar oscar 4096 Aug 6 12:59 ../ lrwxrwxrwx 1 oscar

Olly Betts writes: > On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 09:54:36AM +0200, Jean-Francois Dockes wrote: > > The question which remains for me is if I should run xapian-compact > > after an initial indexing operation. I guess that this depends on the > > amount of expected updates and that there is no easy answer ? > > I think it's not obvious whether it's a good plan

It took approximately five days, having single process using one core CPU and 6GB of memory to build this giant 607GB single Xapian index, containing 219 million of unique documents (web sites). So far I did not found any other implementation that would enable me to build such a single index containing over 200 million documents, while testing Lucene, Solr, MySQL, Hadoop and Oracle. Probably

Xapian Index 253 million documents = 704G I just build my largest single Xapian index with 253 million unique documents on single server using single hard disk, less that 8G RAM and single processor 2.0 GHz. I do not see any search performance decreases in searching my indexes between 100 million and 250 million, which indicates a good scalability of Xapian and it looks like, I can push it easily

Olly Betts <olly <at> survex.com> writes: > > On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 11:04:29AM +0100, Jean-Francois Dockes wrote: > > Olly Betts writes: > > > On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 02:53:14AM +0000, Bob Cargill wrote: > > > > I will look into the bug you listed to see if it might be related. If there > > > > is anything else that I can do, please

On Wed, Jun 19, 2013, at 03:49 PM, Olly Betts wrote: > On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 01:29:16PM +1000, Bron Gondwana wrote: > > The advantage of compact - it runs approximately 8 times as fast (we > > are CPU limited in each case - writing to tmpfs first, then rsyncing > > to the destination) and it takes approximately 75% of the space of a > > fresh database with maximum

I think this is a shining example of how well Xapian works with large document collections. I was just discussing this with my colleagues here and one of the issues that came up is that we'd love Xapian to become really lot more popular but have found that the documentation's a bit difficult to get into, as is the API. So I was wondering: do you have any thoughts on improving this and

Olly Betts writes: > On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 09:08:32PM +0200, Jean-Francois Dockes wrote: > > I have a user reporting the following error during recoll indexing: > > > > flush() failed: Db block overwritten - are there multiple writers? > > > > "flush() failed" is from recoll, the rest is, I think the text of the Xapian > > exception.

Hi, A Recoll user is reporting an index corruption problem. In general, index corruption happens from time to time with Recoll, because of crashes, reboots, misc Recoll bugs, etc. The strange thing here is that xapian-check does not seem to detect anything. In a nutshell, some document numbers seem to point to a data blackhole: the docids are returned when searching for the file/doc unique

Hi, I have a user reporting the following error during recoll indexing: flush() failed: Db block overwritten - are there multiple writers? "flush() failed" is from recoll, the rest is, I think the text of the Xapian exception. This is with Xapian 1.4.3 on Linux (I asked for more details, should be coming). I don't think that I've ever seen this error, and I also

Greetings, Using latest svn. I've noticed the following error when performing index merging: postlist: baseB blocksize=8K items=33962 lastblock=534 revision=1 levels=2 root=459 B-tree checked okay Tag containing meta information is corrupt. postlist table errors found: 1 I can still search on this index (I've only checked very small indexes), but merging is now a problem since I check

hi, i use xapian to index a txt file, it's size is 268M. i take each line as a document, and each line has two field like 13445511 | 111115151. the recored size is 10000000. the XAPIAN_FLUSH_THRESHOLD set 1000000. it takes 1026544ms to index the file, it is more slower than lucene. The lucene speed is about 40000 records per second. code: try { Xapian::WritableDatabase

Hello, I am trying to rebuild an index of 2+ million documents and have not been successful. I am running Python 2.7 Django 1.7 Haystack 2.1.1 Xapian 1.2.21 The index rebuild command I’m using is: django-admin.py rebuild_index --noinput --batch-size=100000 The rebuild completes but an immediate xapian-check returns this error: xapian-check ./archive_index record: baseB blocksize=8K

Hi all, after upgrading xapian I encountered the same problem as described in ticket #645 Read block errors after reopen() in our setup its 100% reproducible after each reopen(). I downgraded again and it seems the problem occurs in Version 1.2.16 and above. in <=1.2.15 everything works fine without seeing this error once. attaches strace shows read ends on FD. strace starts at reopen()

> I think this is a shining example of how well Xapian works with large > document collections. I was just discussing this with my colleagues here > and one of the issues that came up is that we'd love Xapian to become > really lot more popular but have found that the documentation's a bit > difficult to get into, as is the API. I agree. There are a few gotchas, as well