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Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2021 21:16:56 +0000
From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: boost and /all/
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Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> Eric:
> 
> I'm not sure if boost is quite working correctly (or it's possible I'm not
> doing something right). E.g. I have the following thread:
> 
> https://x-lore.kernel.org/all/d8319fd18df7086b12cdcc23193c313893aa071a.1627362340.git.viresh.kumar@linaro.org/T/#u
> 
> It was sent to several vger destinations, but also to the virtualization list,
> which alters message bodies. I have vger sources marked with boost=1, but not
> the virtualization source, e.g.:

<snip>

> I believe this should assign boost value of 0, but the virtualization source
> seems to be "winning" both via the interface and when retrieving t.mbox.gz.
> Anything I'm not doing right?

Correct, boost=0 is the default.  Did you set boost before indexing?
It needs to be set before indexing (or reindexing).

Reindexing is crazy expensive, unfortunately, and there probably
needs to be a way to limit it to certain messages...