[Xapian-discuss] Best Practices for Compaction?

[Arjen van der Meijden]

Hi Ken,

We're only updating the database in intervals, not continuously.
What we're doing is basically:
[symlink for the database is to compacted database]
update "working" database
change symlink for database to "working"
compact working to a new compact database
change symlink for database back to compact

And we repeat that every two hours.

Best regards,

Arjen

On 18-9-2009 15:06, Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> What are the best practices for database compaction?  I need to be able
> to run 24/7, but compaction takes a couple of hours, so what do you guys
> normally do to mitigate that problem?  Shut down for two hours?  Collect
> to a different DB while compacting?  Something else?
> 
> ...Thanks,
> ...Ken
> 
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