From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: meta@public-inbox.org
Subject: Re: Switching to extindex
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2024 17:07:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240604170735.M954932@dcvr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ed9c1ywx.fsf@meer.lwn.net>
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> wrote:
> I"ve run public-inbox-extindex --all and waited a few days; once I
> figured out that I also need to have it running with --watch, things
> *seem* to be working well.
>
> My understanding is that I can now get rid of the per-inbox indexing and
> get a bunch of disk space back, and I would like to do that. This,
> though, is the step that I've not been able to figure out. Which files
> can I remove, and how do I tell public-inbox to not recreate them?
Yes, you can remove the Xapian shard directories (0, 1, 2, ...)
under xap15 and -watch will be able to detect indexlevel=basic
on the next SIGHUP or restart.
Leave the per-inbox *.sqlite3 files, they're still required for
-extindex and don't use too much space compared to Xapian.
For new inboxes you can -init with `-L basic' to avoid per-inbox
Xapian DBs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-06-04 17:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-06-04 15:59 Switching to extindex Jonathan Corbet
2024-06-04 17:07 ` Eric Wong [this message]
2024-06-04 17:18 ` Jonathan Corbet
2024-06-04 17:24 ` Eric Wong
2024-06-04 17:34 ` Jonathan Corbet
2024-06-04 22:25 ` [PATCH] mda: do not auto-create Xapian indices Eric Wong
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