[Building Sakai] Help with sharedJournalBase

[Katherine Faella]

Hi Stephen,

Thanks. We are not using the search tool so I will do as you indicate 
when I can bounce the server.

Thanks for your speedy and helpful response!!
Kathy


On 07/15/2010 01:11 PM, Stephen Marquard wrote:
> Hi Katherine,
>
> Are you using the Search tool? If not, then you can just disable it with search.enable=false in sakai.properties and delete all these files.
>
> If you are using it, then you have some problem with the shared search index (journal) files not being merged, which is what usually keeps the number manageable. The easiest way to recover from this is to drop all the search tables (or delete their contents), restart the cluster and do a global search index rebuild.
>
> Regards
> Stephen
>
>    
>>>> Katherine Faella<kmf at uri.edu>  7/15/2010 7:05 PM>>>
>>>>          
> Hi,
>
> I am hoping someone can help me with this, I am quite confused.  In our
> sakai.properties we have the following:
>
> sharedJournalBase at org.sakaiproject.search.api.JournalSettings=/sakaimisc/search/sharedJournalBase
>
> We are running 2.5.x in a clustered environment.  My problem is that I
> don't really understand what this property controls.  The directory
> specified currently contains a subdirectory searchjournal which contains
> over 35,000 zip files and seems to be growing.  What event triggers the
> creation of these files? Do they ever get deleted?
>
> Thanks,
> Kathy
>
>    

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