Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The Leica Users mailing list has a fairly elaborate indexing system. Each time a digest is generated, the software re-indexes the current volume. For whatever reason, the rate at which Leica Users messages are arriving is now greater than the rate at which mejac.palo-alto.ca.us can index them. That means that before a "re-index the volume" computation completes, a new one comes along. Many of you have noticed that the index update hasn't worked in about a week. These past few days I was in Maryland at my 35th high school reunion (High Point High School, Beltsville, Maryland). And then I got to be on campus at the University of Maryland when the tornado struck. But while I was gone, the index runs piled up. Today when I got back from the airport I discovered that the computer was completely paralyzed running 11 index jobs, for each of the 11 most recent digests. I have no choice in the short term but to turn off the indexing; otherwise everything will stop. In the long run it's time to move to a faster computer. In between I have to figure how some sort of workaround, e.g. only re-run the index every 2 days, or make the volumes be smaller, or something. Sorry about the delay. You should all now have an absolute avalanche of email, and those of you who feel the need to reply to everything need to limber up your typing fingers... Brian Reid - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html