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Questions tagged [sphinxsearch]

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How do I make sphinx restart when I reboot my Ubuntu server?

I built and installed sphinx search on my ubuntu 9.04 server. How do I make the sphinx daemon start automatically when I reboot?
Hobhouse
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Site crawler/spider that tosses results into mysql

It's been suggested that we use mysql for our site's search as it'd be running on the same server that hosts our web server (nginx) and our db (mysql). Since not all of our pages are created from the database, it's been suggested that we have a…
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Simple full-text search server

I have been looking at search solutions like Sphinx, Solr and Elasticsearch but they are all way too complex for what I need. I'm basically looking for a server software, best distributed, that allows me to just throw in chunks of text associated…
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/etc/rc.local not being run on Ubuntu Desktop Install

I have been trying to get sphinx to run at boot, so I added some lines to /etc/rc.local but nothing happens when I start up. If i run it manually it works however. /etc/init.d/rc.local start works fine as does /etc/rc.local It's listed in the…
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Pecl complies .so extensions for OSX built-in PHP and not MAMP

I've installed the sphinx binaries and libraries and am now trying to install the PECL sphinx module. My system is running OS X 10.6 with MAMP 1.8.2 installed. I try to install sphinx using the following command: sudo pecl install sphinx The PECL…
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Linux: process memory accounted to cached amount

I have very strange case of memory usage on our ubuntu server. One process (which is searchd from sphinxsearch) allocated almost all available memory, and its VSize, RSS and SHR are almost equal (about 18GB). But what makes me really astonished, is…
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How to fully live update sphinx indexing?

It's covered in sphinx documents: http://sphinxsearch.com/docs/manual-0.9.9.html#live-updates But after reading it,I don't think it really can achieve that. Have you guys ever also thought of this problem?
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How do I choose an appropriate max_children value for Sphinx?

We have a Sphinx install (2.0.3) running on a cluster of 3 EC2 instances (currently m3.large). Currently we have workers = threads and max_children = 30 in our Sphinx config (same on each box). We are periodically getting the dreaded "temporary…
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understanding and improving sphinx searchd memory usage

My company has a few servers that we dedicate to running Sphinx Search. All are CentOS 5 with about 48GB of memory and our version of searchd is 1.11. Recently I've been trying to understand why Sphinx uses so little of the available memory for its…
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Sphinx searchd: failed to lock .spl file, no such file or directory

I use sphinx for indexing on my development environment, and it is working fine. But when i take it to the server. I can index and I have the indexes with search working on them, but everytime I run the command: searchd --config configfile , it…
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How do I install the latest version of Sphinx Seach in Apt-get?

When I do "sudo apt-get install sphinxsearch", I get version 0.9. I want the latest stable version (which is 2.4, I believe) How can I do that using aptitude?
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Sphinx searchd connection refused by local host

I have sphinx setup to run in config files on port 3312. I can use the indexer, and create the index. I can search. I can't run searchd to return queries. I tried telnet 127.0.0.1 3312. My connection is refused. Whats my next step? I am not very…
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MediaWiki SearchEngine that behaves like google

searchterm: foo should match foo and foobar searchterm: "foo" should only match foo I tried LuceneSearch and SphinxSearch so far, but I couldn't get any of these to behave like google. foo will only match foo, and foo* will match foo and foobar.
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Sphinx on OSX - Building on OSX

Could anyone give me a bit of insite to why sphinx might not be installing on my Snow Leopard OSX Machine? I currently have up and running (from installs not MAMP); Apache, MySQL, PHP. When running ./configure --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql…
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Possible SYN flooding - Apache & Sphinx listened ports

I’ve been getting this message: possible SYN flooding. I already tweaked the "net.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog" directive, but the issue persists and I cannot determine the reason. To be noted this is not a DDoS situation, but high level of traffic. I…
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