Another suggestion before upgrade is to do a manual merge on large databases with lots of deleted fragments in order to reduce their size, as the reindexing/merge process temporarily increases database size while it is going on (which can be a problem depending on license key quotas).
On Tue, 18 Sep 2012, Geert Josten wrote: > Thnx for the heads up, useful. Good reason to always test upgrades first > whenever possible.. ;-P > > Kind regards, > Geert > >> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- >> Van: [email protected] [mailto:general- >> [email protected]] Namens David Sewell >> Verzonden: dinsdag 18 september 2012 18:37 >> Aan: General Mark Logic Developer Discussion >> Onderwerp: [MarkLogic Dev General] ML 6 upgrade, reindexing, and CPU > load >> >> All, >> >> I've just upgraded a Red Hat Linux installation of MarkLogic from v5 to > v6. I >> had database reindexing set to the default of true, so as I write I am > watching >> the server doing the reindexing and sending CPU load averages up to > levels I >> have never seen before, including during past upgrades of MarkLogic. >> >> So this is a caveat to folks planning for the upgrade, that you may want > to >> disable automatic database reindexing on your large databases so you can >> manually reindex one at a time, and/or plan to do the upgrade at a time > when >> you >> can afford slow system performance. >> >> David S. >> >> -- >> David Sewell, Editorial and Technical Manager >> ROTUNDA, The University of Virginia Press >> PO Box 400314, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4314 USA >> Email: [email protected] Tel: +1 434 924 9973 >> Web: http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/ >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general > -- David Sewell, Editorial and Technical Manager ROTUNDA, The University of Virginia Press PO Box 400314, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4314 USA Email: [email protected] Tel: +1 434 924 9973 Web: http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/ _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general
