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| author | Eric Wong <e@yhbt.net> | 2020-08-25 10:51:20 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric Wong <e@yhbt.net> | 2020-08-26 06:10:45 +0000 |
| commit | 78b1c973fba89bc6651ffa16807c40abd38e7bad (patch) | |
| tree | d344f2059b4dfa949f9e1b288417b19f85817365 /Documentation/public-inbox-index.pod | |
| parent | 9684e0406fd2c67706bc46e4c8e98a53c8edede3 (diff) | |
| download | public-inbox-78b1c973fba89bc6651ffa16807c40abd38e7bad.tar.gz | |
I've learned a thing or three about btrfs in the past few weeks and remembered some old HDD things, too. The Xapian MultiDatabase problem will need to be addressed for 1.7...
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diff --git a/Documentation/public-inbox-index.pod b/Documentation/public-inbox-index.pod index 46a53825..207b2ed8 100644 --- a/Documentation/public-inbox-index.pod +++ b/Documentation/public-inbox-index.pod @@ -39,8 +39,12 @@ normal search functionality. Influences the number of Xapian indexing shards in a (L<public-inbox-v2-format(5)>) inbox. +See L<public-inbox-init(1)/--jobs> for a full description +of sharding. + C<--jobs=0> is accepted as of public-inbox 1.6.0 (PENDING) -to disable parallel indexing. +to disable parallel indexing regardless of the number of +pre-existing shards. If the inbox has not been indexed or initialized, C<JOBS - 1> shards will be created (one job is always needed for indexing @@ -133,7 +137,11 @@ Available in public-inbox 1.6.0 (PENDING). =item --no-fsync Disables L<fsync(2)> and L<fdatasync(2)> operations on SQLite -and Xapian. This is only effective with Xapian 1.4+. +and Xapian. This is only effective with Xapian 1.4+. This is +primarily intended for systems with low RAM and the small +(default) C<--batch-size=1m>. Users of large C<--batch-size> +may even find disabling L<fdatasync(2)> causes too much dirty +data to accumulate, resulting on latency spikes from writeback. Available in public-inbox 1.6.0 (PENDING). |