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Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2021 21:36:59 +0000
From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: Troubleshooting threads missing from /all/
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Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 07, 2021 at 08:36:52AM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
> > Also, did you capture any error messages to stderr?
> > I suppose you would've told us if you did.
> 
> Yeah, I looked through any place that would have logged an error and I didn't
> really see anything. I expect this would have happened during an extindex run,
> but I didn't see any non-zero exits when I looked through the logs.
> 
> Regarding reindex -- is that something that would make sense to do
> occasionally simply for potential improvements, e.g. similarly to how we
> periodically repack repos with -f for better packs? Or would that be pointless
> churn in the context of xapian?

Yes, I try to note when a reindex is necessary in commit messages.
It takes my system around 2 days to do, typically, but it should
run safely in parallel with everything else safely.

It should probably be done every release, but I suck at making those :<