[recoll-user] Re: Status of initial indexing?
- From: Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: recoll-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 10:44:47 +0200
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 9:29 PM, Jean-Francois Dockes <jfd@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Rainer M Krug writes:
> > Hi
> > is there a way of seeing the status of the indexing? i.e. number of
> > files indexed, how may more to go, and so on?
> > Rainer
>
> I'll suppose that you are using the command line program.
Yes - sorry for not mentioning it.
> > I think that the
> easiest way to know what is happening is to set the log level to 4 or more
> and tail -f the log file.
>
That's an idea - I will try it out.
>
> Alternatively you could query the db with a low level tool to retrieve the
> number of documents, or even the list, but depending on how much buffering
> is going on this can be quite far off the actual count (if you want to go
> this route you can use the "xadump" tool which is built in the same
> directory as "recollq").
>
> I usually use the log file when I want to monitor things.
>
> You can interrupt the indexing process at any point (ie to change the log
> parameters) with limited loss: you are losing the file system walk and up
> to date checks to the current point, and the current file. The walk is
> usually
> negligible, but if you are indexing a mail folder with 1000000 messages,
> redoing the current file may be an issue. recollindex will need a few
> seconds to acknowledge the interrupt, to put things in order.
>
I will come back if I have further questions.
Thanks,
Rainer
>
> Cheers,
>
> jf
>
>
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