[Deploying Sakai] [Building Sakai] Unhelpful error messages from search

[David Horwitz]

Hi David,

What appears to have happened is that your node "ketchup" was shut down
while it was optimizing the shared index. It is likely that if you
update the statuses in the db to
"committed" the merging will continue. I would check though that all the
nodes mentions in the search_journal table are present in your shared
index though

David


Adams, David wrote:
> We recently did a reconfiguration of our Sakai deployment and when we
> brought things back up, we noticed a lot of messages in the log from
> org.sakaiproject.search.optimize.shared.impl.DbJournalOptimizationManage
> r. Every ten seconds, it says:
>
> ERROR: This node already merging shared segments, index writer
> ketchup:1242477119395   This node is currently optimizing the shared
> segments,      This is an error as only one copy of this node should be
> Active in the cluster
>
> Looking at the error in the source (DbJournalOptimizationManager.java in
> search-impl) isn't any more helpful, but I did look at the table that is
> triggering this message, SEARCH_JOURNAL, and we have 51 entries with
> status 'merging-prepare' with indexwriter "ketchup:1242477119395" and
> 795 entries with status 'committed' and indexwriter "ketchup".
>
> I haven't looked any deeper yet, but I am suspecting this is just a
> matter of the database getting out of sync with reality for whatever
> reason. Does anyone have any tips on safe ways to try to address
> whatever the issue is? Or pointers to useful resources on understanding
> how search works? I'm not sure what information in the wiki is reliable.
> We're on the 2.5.4 tag if it makes a difference.
>
> David Adams
> Director of Learning Systems Integration and Support
> Virginia Tech Learning Technologies
>
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