The latter, hanging while reading invalid data.

i will try mv instead of copy. excellent idea.


Brad
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On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Bill Moseley wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 11:25:41AM -0800, Brad Miele wrote:
> > I am looking for a good solution for swapping indexes on my webservers.
> >
> > Currently, i rsync 4 1+ Gig indexes(and prop files) to a temporary area,
> > then I run a script which tests each index, and as long as there is no
> > error, it copies it to the live index directory, and then it restarts the
> > webserver. The problem is that while the index is being copied to live,
> > searches start to hang, and i get some huge http processes.
>
> You mean the process of copying large files on your system cause
> searches to hang?  Or some issue while the indexes are copied and
> swish is reading invalid data?
>
> How about moving directories instead?
>
>    mv index_dir index_dir.old && mv index_dir.new index_dir
>
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