Hi Ngan

I'm not sure why it's cropped up again - but I'm thinking it's not worth 
worrying about unless it reoccurs a bit more regularly. The error isn't lasting 
for more than half a minute or so, right? Or did it persist for a while?

-- 
Pat

On 13/09/2013, at 12:18 AM, Ngan Pham wrote:

> Once, out of 10 deploys.
> 
> On Sep 12, 2013, at 5:36 AM, "Pat Allan" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Ngan
>> 
>> How often is it recurring now that it's returned?
>> 
>> -- 
>> Pat
>> 
>> On 12/09/2013, at 4:44 PM, Ngan wrote:
>> 
>>> Hey Pat,
>>> 
>>> Just had the "no enabled local indexes to search" come back again (after a 
>>> while of not seeing it after deploy).  Any thoughts on why this is still 
>>> happening?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Ngan
>>> 
>>> On Monday, August 12, 2013 9:24:01 AM UTC-7, Ngan wrote:
>>> You are awesome!  Thanks!
>>> 
>>> I've deployed to production and everything works great.  I'll be keeping an 
>>> eye out for my original problem of errors on deployment.
>>> 
>>> Can't wait for 2.1.1 :-)
>>> 
>>> On Monday, August 12, 2013 5:08:54 AM UTC-7, Pat Allan wrote:
>>> The change was pretty simple: 
>>> https://github.com/pat/thinking-sphinx/commit/d5249ea0215128d5d1f916ee42882932ddb86ba7
>>>  
>>> 
>>> To use it (for the 2.x releases of Thinking Sphinx): 
>>> 
>>>   gem 'thinking-sphinx', '~> 2.1.0', 
>>>     :git    => 'git://github.com/pat/thinking-sphinx.git', 
>>>     :branch => 'v2', 
>>>     :ref    => '64da4dc7ff' 
>>> 
>>> And then in an initialiser: 
>>> 
>>>   ThinkingSphinx.persistence_enabled = false 
>>> 
>>> Will be keen to hear if everything returns to normal for you! 
>>> 
>>> On 12/08/2013, at 12:19 AM, Ngan Pham wrote: 
>>> 
>>> > I see... 
>>> > 
>>> > So I've tested it out and it's a bit of a disaster for my situation. Some 
>>> > search requests are getting dropped and the server that runs sphinx is 
>>> > hitting memory limits. I could, in theory, solve the problem by 
>>> > increasing ram, how ever we have fallback servers...and it would suck to 
>>> > have to increase those as well.  I'll do some research on how people 
>>> > handle large sphinx requests...like airbnb. 
>>> > 
>>> > As for my 2 cents: I never felt that there was that much of an issue with 
>>> > the cost of opening a connection to sphinx for every request. It is very 
>>> > fast for us currently, and shaving 50-80% off something that already only 
>>> > takes milliseconds while trading for more memory usage and less 
>>> > scalability isn't worth for me specifically. It would awesome if you 
>>> > added a configuration option to disable persistent connections! I will 
>>> > buy you a beer! :) 
>>> > 
>>> >> On Aug 10, 2013, at 10:26 PM, Pat Allan <[email protected]> 
>>> >> wrote: 
>>> >> 
>>> >> And the benefit is faster query times - the socket isn't being 
>>> >> setup/cleaned up on every single search request. From the quick testing 
>>> >> I did back when I made this change, this made a noticeable difference 
>>> >> with Sphinx query times (no numbers at hand, but I think it was at least 
>>> >> a 50% improvement, if not closer to 80%). 
>>> >> 
>>> >> -- 
>>> >> Pat 
>>> >> 
>>> >>> On 11/08/2013, at 3:15 PM, Ngan Pham wrote: 
>>> >>> 
>>> >>> Hm…I was afraid of that… 
>>> >>> So, we have 9 application servers with 10-20 processes each.  At high 
>>> >>> traffic times, we'd be seeing 181 processes for searchd?  Won't that 
>>> >>> blow memory up like crazy?  Is this normally something that everyone 
>>> >>> deals with? 
>>> >>> 
>>> >>> Just curious…what are the benefits of persisted connection pools? 
>>> >>> 
>>> >>> As always, thanks for the quick response Pat! 
>>> >>> 
>>> >>> - Ngan 
>>> >>>> On Saturday, August 10, 2013 at 10:11 PM, Pat Allan wrote: 
>>> >>>> 
>>> >>>> Hi Ngan 
>>> >>>> 
>>> >>>> There's not really any documentation around the changes, I'm afraid… 
>>> >>>> but what you're seeing is a process per thread of your app, plus a 
>>> >>>> master daemon process, due to the persisted connection pool. 
>>> >>>> 
>>> >>>> All the logic for this connection pool can be found in 
>>> >>>> ThinkingSphinx::Connection: 
>>> >>>> https://github.com/pat/thinking-sphinx/blob/v2/lib/thinking_sphinx/connection.rb
>>> >>>>  
>>> >>>> 
>>> >>>> The HISTORY file has a list of all relevant changes though - here's 
>>> >>>> the list of what's changed between 2.0.14 and 2.1.0 - but this and 
>>> >>>> some delta refactoring are the biggest items: 
>>> >>>> 
>>> >>>> * Removed plugin support - Thinking Sphinx is now gem-only across all 
>>> >>>> branches. 
>>> >>>> * ThinkingSphinx::Version and the thinking_sphinx:version task have 
>>> >>>> been removed - it's a gem, it has a version number. 
>>> >>>> * Updating Riddle to 1.5.6 or newer. 
>>> >>>> * Requires ActiveRecord ~> 2.1 for TS 1.x releases (earlier versions 
>>> >>>> were considered unsupported a few releases ago). 
>>> >>>> * Allow custom Riddle controllers - useful for Flying Sphinx to take 
>>> >>>> over management of Sphinx daemon/indexing actions. 
>>> >>>> * Rejigged delta support to be generic, with local job classes that 
>>> >>>> provide a clean, simple interface for third-party libraries. 
>>> >>>> * Add hooks for anything that needs to happen before indexing (such as 
>>> >>>> clearing out existing delta jobs). 
>>> >>>> * Connection pool for all Sphinx client communication, with new 
>>> >>>> connections built if there's any connection-related (as opposed to 
>>> >>>> syntax) issues. 
>>> >>>> * Multiple-field search conditions can be done with arrays of field 
>>> >>>> names as keys in the :conditions hash (Alex Dowad). 
>>> >>>> * Removed named capture in regular expressions to maintain MRI 1.8 
>>> >>>> support (Michael Wintrant). 
>>> >>>> * Support new JDBC configuration style (Kyle Stevens). 
>>> >>>> 
>>> >>>> -- 
>>> >>>> Pat 
>>> >>>> 
>>> >>>>> On 11/08/2013, at 2:39 PM, Ngan wrote: 
>>> >>>>> 
>>> >>>>> Hi Pat, 
>>> >>>>> 
>>> >>>>> Thanks for the help. I tried upgrading to 2.1.0...and I'm noticing 
>>> >>>>> multiple instance of searched running now. Is that normal? Would you 
>>> >>>>> be able to point me to documentation of major changes with 2.1.0? 
>>> >>>>> 
>>> >>>>> Thanks, 
>>> >>>>> Ngan 
>>> >>>>> 
>>> >>>>> On Friday, August 9, 2013 7:57:51 AM UTC-7, Pat Allan wrote: 
>>> >>>>> Hi Ngan 
>>> >>>>> 
>>> >>>>> In 2.1.0 there's been some patches that deal with these kinds of 
>>> >>>>> errors - TS will now retry searches if an error crops up on the 
>>> >>>>> client connection (which is also persisted per thread in a connection 
>>> >>>>> pool, saving socket setup/teardown time). If an error crops up, a new 
>>> >>>>> connection is made, but if the error persists, it'll still get 
>>> >>>>> raised… 
>>> >>>>> 
>>> >>>>> Give 2.1.0 a spin, see if that helps matters. 
>>> >>>>> 
>>> >>>>> -- 
>>> >>>>> Pat 
>>> >>>>> 
>>> >>>>>> On 09/08/2013, at 10:46 PM, Ngan wrote: 
>>> >>>>>> 
>>> >>>>>> Forgot to add the trace: 
>>> >>>>>> 
>>> >>>>>> gems/thinking-sphinx-2.0.14/lib/thinking_sphinx/search.rb:438:in 
>>> >>>>>> `block in populate' 
>>> >>>>>> gems/thinking-sphinx-2.0.14/lib/thinking_sphinx/search.rb:606:in 
>>> >>>>>> `call' 
>>> >>>>>> gems/thinking-sphinx-2.0.14/lib/thinking_sphinx/search.rb:606:in 
>>> >>>>>> `retry_on_stale_index' 
>>> >>>>>> gems/thinking-sphinx-2.0.14/lib/thinking_sphinx/search.rb:426:in 
>>> >>>>>> `populate' 
>>> >>>>>> gems/thinking-sphinx-2.0.14/lib/thinking_sphinx/search.rb:104:in 
>>> >>>>>> `to_a' 
>>> >>>>>> 
>>> >>>>>> 
>>> >>>>>> 
>>> >>>>>> On Friday, August 9, 2013 5:45:55 AM UTC-7, Ngan wrote: 
>>> >>>>>> Hi, 
>>> >>>>>> 
>>> >>>>>> We reindex our entire index pretty often (once every 3 minutes) 
>>> >>>>>> because we have a pretty small data collection and we don't want to 
>>> >>>>>> use delayed delta. I notice however, that every once in a while, 
>>> >>>>>> when we deploy our application and it happens to be the same time 
>>> >>>>>> the reindexing is about to rotate, we'll get this error "no enabled 
>>> >>>>>> local indexes to search" every time we hit sphinx there afterwards. 
>>> >>>>>> When this happens, we have to restart our app so that it picks up 
>>> >>>>>> the new indexes. We are reindexing with rotate so the existing index 
>>> >>>>>> should still be there and the rotation should be seamless. Any ideas 
>>> >>>>>> on why this happens? And if there's anything to do about it? 
>>> >>>>>> 
>>> >>>>>> Thanks, 
>>> >>>>>> Ngan 
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