Re: XySearch is down temporarily

[Fred Weiner fw1948@xxxxxxxx]

much appreciated, this, and all the rest that you contribute . . . FW

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 3:51 AM, Robert Holmgren mailto:holmgren@xxxxxxxx wrote:

** Reply to message from Fred Weiner mailto:fw1948@xxxxxxxx on Sun,


5 Jul 2009 11:51:36 -0700





> Robert! You're there! Alive and (I hope) well! How's the

> work on getting XySearch functional coming? FW.



Thanks for prodding me, Fred -- I needed that.  I've taken

XySearch down this morning (temporarily not accessible), and am

presently remaking the indexes, which were broken about a year

ago when a drive ran out of space, and Perl went berserk and

started erasing files to create free space (as I programmed it

to do -- truly shrewd, aye?).



I was loathe to remake those indices because my server is

heavily used for other purposes (it hosts a number of public

websites, including one Google Group machine translation

facility) and the process of remaking the indices absorbs every

ounce of CPU power that the computer has.  However, I'm biting

the bullet at long last, and the indexing operation will take

36-72 hours, after which (fingers crossed) XySearch should be

back in business.



More anon...



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