Re: Email not searchable in our archives

Dave Page wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
>> Confirmed. I added a test mode to a copy of the archives indexer, and
>> running that it claims it would index a further 715 messages, which
>> would give us a total of 1187.
>>
>> So I guess the next step is to try running out of test mode to see if
>> the data actually makes it into the index now, but I didn't want to do
>> that and stomp on any testing you're doing.
>
> OK, so running it properly has added those missing 715 messages. I
> think we need to run a full index run which should restore any missing
> pages, but before we do that, I'd kinda like to gather any ideas on
> why this has happened before removing any evidence.

hmm weird ...

>
> My best guess is simply that the indexer failed for some time and
> noone noticed for a few weeks. By the time it was re-run, some
> messages that it had missed were outside the timeframe that an
> incremental crawl would have picked up (the current, plus last month).
> Thoughts?
>
> Stefan; any thoughts on how we might monitor that the indexer has been
> running correctly? I assume that should be fairly easy if we have it
> drop a timestamp someplace?

yes - iirc there is even some discussion on that on pmt - will work
something out for that in the next days.

Stefan