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Re: Index mess (Is there a workaround ?)

 

Hello Jaap.


On 17.02.2015 09:10, Jaap Karssenberg wrote:
> Andreas,
>
> I'm reworking the index at the moment, not sure if it will be much faster when a full re-index is needed, but at least it should be more robust for detecting deltas in the index. So hope it will remove the need to re-index often.
>
> For completeness can you refer the bug report you mentioned?

I've found this report and wanted to add a comment, but
the mailing list was faster ...

   https://bugs.launchpad.net/zim/+bug/1181980


Best regards, not without saying "Thanks a lot for zim",

     Andreas




> Regards,
>
> Jaap
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 7:44 AM, WEHLER Andreas <andreas.wehler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:andreas.wehler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     Hi.
>
>     I'd like to confirm the reported bug, it has hit me quite often.
>
>     One of my most frequently used zim books with collected public knowledge,
>     attachments and WEB-links has this footprint:
>         Files:  1270
>         Pages:   856
>         Size:   53MiB
>
>     After removing the related .zim/* the index is reorganized and the
>     notebook is usable again. I love this robustness and the separation between
>     data and management in .zim dir (index, state etc). Thanks a lot, Jaap (!!)
>
>     For the tasklist the index has to be rebuilt, which takes around 4 minutes
>     and more, giving a performance of 5 files per second. The names of processed
>     files are displayed on the run, it feels quite slow.
>
>           System:  Ubuntu 14.04; x86_64, 2 CPU(s), 3 GHz, 8 GiB memory.
>
>     The zim book is rsync'ed to and from a removable media daily, to be used at
>     several places, leaving the .zim management directory out.
>     So far I've ignored the problem, assuming the cause in .zim dir being out of
>     sync. But in the middle of the work the effect may happen also, which does
>     not fit with the assumption.
>
>     Zim Versions in use, without difference in this aspect:
>         Zim 0.60
>         Zim 0.62
>
>
>     Best regards,
>
>          Andreas
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