CODEWITHSUNDEEP
sphinx
user217631
user217631

Reputation: 1308

sphinx search data files

below is sphinx's data directory, is it safe to delete the .tmp files after indexing? will searchd use them?

-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root    24M Apr 27 21:34 myindex.spa
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root   929M Apr 27 21:35 myindex.spd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root    409 Apr 27 21:35 myindex.sph
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root    50M Apr 27 21:35 myindex.spi
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root      0 Apr 27 21:34 myindex.spk
-rw------- 1 root   root      0 May  2 08:57 myindex.spl
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root      0 Apr 27 21:33 myindex.spm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root   782M Apr 27 21:35 myindex.spp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root    17M Apr 27 21:35 myindex.sps
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root   2.9G May  2 04:09 myindex.tmp.spa
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root    82G May  2 13:03 myindex.tmp.spd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root   949M May  2 13:02 myindex.tmp.spi
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root      0 May  2 04:09 myindex.tmp.spk
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root      0 Apr 30 11:33 myindex.tmp.spl
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root      0 May  2 04:07 myindex.tmp.spm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root   106G May  2 13:03 myindex.tmp.spp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root   2.1G May  2 04:07 myindex.tmp.sps
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root      0 Apr 30 11:34 myindex.tmp.tmp0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root   247G May  2 04:07 myindex.tmp.tmp1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root   2.8G May  2 04:07 myindex.tmp.tmp2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root      0 May  2 04:09 myindex.tmp.tmp8

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1254

Answers (1)

James C
James C

Reputation: 14159

I'm pretty sure that the .tmp files are created while you're indexing with the --rotate option defined. If you look at the timestamp on them you can see they're newer than the current indexes being used.

Once the rotate has completed the tmp files will replace the existing ones and the existing ones deleted.

Upvotes: 1

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