Thanks. I'll go ahead and start implementing this week and let you know if 
I run into hiccups. If you think of anything else, let me know.

On Sunday, March 11, 2018 at 7:01:42 PM UTC-4, Pat Allan wrote:
>
> I’m still out of ideas for the moment.
>
> But as for real-time indices, this is a good place to start:
> https://freelancing-gods.com/thinking-sphinx/real_time.html
>
> — 
> Pat
>
> On 12 Mar 2018, at 2:56 am, mrmanishs <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> wrote:
>
> Thanks Pat for the follow-up.
>
> Yes, was happening on each and every request. As I stated, it only 
> happened through Passenger also, not through console. 
>
> I think I'll switch to real-time indices, if you think of anything else, 
> let me know. It's got me stumped.
>
> On Sunday, March 11, 2018 at 12:12:56 AM UTC-5, Pat Allan wrote:
>>
>> I know it’s hard to test now that you’ve disabled deltas, but I 
>> wondering… did it happen on every single request?
>>
>> It’s just that, previously - as already noted - failed indexing didn’t 
>> raise exceptions. If two requests came at the same time that both made 
>> alterations to the same model, one of the delta processing attempts would 
>> work, the other wouldn’t - but the end result is still both alterations 
>> would be in Sphinx (the successful processing captured both changes).
>>
>> Now, in the same scenario, one would work, and the other would fail and 
>> raise an exception. The data would still be persisted in Sphinx (and given 
>> deltas are invoked in after_commit, in the database as well), but the 500 
>> error resulting from the failure is a terrible user experience.
>>
>> If this is the situation, then the best solution is to either shift delta 
>> processing into a background worker (via ts-sidekiq-delta, 
>> ts-delayed-delta, or ts-resque-delta), or to use real-time indices.
>>
>> Of course, if this isn’t the case - if a single request raises the 
>> exception, and there’s no other concurrent requests altering the same 
>> model, then the cause will be something else (and I’m really not sure what 
>> it could be!). Perhaps real-time indices are worth investigating either 
>> way? They’ve been around in TS for a good while now and I use them for any 
>> of my new projects that need Sphinx, as do significantly sized Flying 
>> Sphinx customers.
>>
>> On 11 Mar 2018, at 2:39 pm, mrmanishs <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for getting back Pat. Yes deltas were working great on the old 
>> server.
>>
>> The permission is 644 and owner is root. 
>>
>> On Saturday, March 10, 2018 at 7:45:48 PM UTC-5, Pat Allan wrote:
>>>
>>> So, one thing that’s probably changed in that upgrade is that the newer 
>>> versions of Riddle are now a little fussier about running indexing 
>>> commands, and raise exceptions depending on the status code of the 
>>> `indexer` command. So, it could be possible this issue was always happening 
>>> but the errors weren’t apparent. I feel that’s unlikely though - you’d 
>>> probably have noticed if delta results weren’t appearing?
>>>
>>> Also worth considering is the underlying error:
>>>
>>> FATAL: failed to lock /sites/cap/
>>> classifieds.acceleweb.com/db/sphinx/production/address_delta.spl: Resource 
>>> temporarily unavailable, will not index
>>>
>>>
>>> I presume the path there is correct? What are the permissions on that 
>>> file? Is the owner root?
>>>
>>> — 
>>> Pat
>>>
>>> On 10 Mar 2018, at 1:12 am, mrmanishs <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks. I actually migrated to a new server and installed the latest 
>>> version of Sphinx/TS.
>>>
>>> New server: Sphinx 3.0.2, TS 3.4.2 on Rails 5.1.5
>>> Old server: Sphinx 2.2.6, TS 3.2.0 on Rails 4.1.6
>>>
>>> Could I have missed something in the upgrade that these symptoms may 
>>> show? 
>>>
>>> I have disabled deltas for now to get it going, but it's not ideal. 
>>>
>>>
>>> On Friday, March 9, 2018 at 8:58:02 AM UTC-5, Pat Allan wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hmm. Have you tried running a rebuild? And has this problem started 
>>>> only recently?
>>>>
>>>> As a stop-gap solution, you could disable deltas and run the `ts:index` 
>>>> task more regularly, but granted, that’s not ideal.
>>>>
>>>> On 9 Mar 2018, at 2:36 pm, mrmanishs <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have nginx in front of passenger, so all the passenger log entries go 
>>>> into the nginx one. The only item in nginx is the url calls come back with 
>>>> a 500. 
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the note.  
>>>>
>>>> Any other ideas? Also, up for doing some real-time debugging if it 
>>>> would help. I am not really sure what's going on and it's impacting 
>>>> functionality on site :(
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thursday, March 8, 2018 at 5:14:47 PM UTC-5, Pat Allan wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hmm. Is there anything related to this issue in your passenger logs? 
>>>>> And/or if you’re using nginx/apache/etc in front of that, their logs?
>>>>>
>>>>> Unrelated, but: indexed_models is no longer needed/used by TS v3+.
>>>>>
>>>>> — 
>>>>> Pat
>>>>>
>>>>> On 9 Mar 2018, at 1:04 am, mrmanishs <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks Pat.
>>>>>
>>>>> - searchd and nginx are both being run as root. Everything's root 
>>>>> actually... 
>>>>> - I have searchd in /usr/local/bin and confirmed the production 
>>>>> bin_path is /usr/local/bin . I have this in my thinking_sphinx.yml file 
>>>>> for 
>>>>> prod:
>>>>>
>>>>> production:
>>>>>   mysql41: 9401
>>>>>   configuration_file: "<path_to_config>"
>>>>>   log: "<path_to_log>"
>>>>>   query_log: "<path_to_query_log>"
>>>>>   pid_file: "<path_to_pid_file>"
>>>>>   min_infix_len: 3
>>>>>   bin_path: '/usr/local/bin'
>>>>>   indexed_models:
>>>>>         - Address
>>>>>   quiet_deltas: true 
>>>>>
>>>>> Any other thoughts?
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wednesday, March 7, 2018 at 11:45:43 PM UTC-5, Pat Allan wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Manish,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I’m at a conference today, so please excuse the brevity, but it 
>>>>>> sounds like this might be a permissions issue. See this note in the 
>>>>>> documentation:
>>>>>> https://freelancing-gods.com/thinking-sphinx/common_issues.html#deltas
>>>>>> (Both the deltas section and possibly the following section for 
>>>>>> passenger)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Certainly, real-time indices shouldn’t hit these issues, but you 
>>>>>> should certainly be able to get your current setup working.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hope this helps!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> — 
>>>>>> Pat
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 8 Mar 2018, at 2:58 pm, mrmanishs <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> After further investigation, it looks like an issue with delta 
>>>>>> indexing. Is there a fix? Should real-time indices be used instead, is 
>>>>>> that 
>>>>>> a better approach?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wednesday, March 7, 2018 at 4:39:16 PM UTC-5, mrmanishs wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Whenever I try to do anything in my app through passenger, I get an 
>>>>>>> error similar to this:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> F, [2018-03-07T21:35:13.949318 #30762] FATAL -- : 
>>>>>>> [d6484d23-620d-4f33-8f17-13c12b7dab53] Riddle::CommandFailedError 
>>>>>>> (Sphinx 
>>>>>>> command failed to execute):
>>>>>>> F, [2018-03-07T21:35:13.949426 #30762] FATAL -- : 
>>>>>>> [d6484d23-620d-4f33-8f17-13c12b7dab53]   
>>>>>>> F, [2018-03-07T21:35:13.949536 #30762] FATAL -- : 
>>>>>>> [d6484d23-620d-4f33-8f17-13c12b7dab53] 
>>>>>>> app/controllers/listing_controller.rb:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> That's all I get... no other information. 
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The same instructions work in console and there are no issues. 
>>>>>>> Everything else on the rails app works fine. 
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Any idea? What else can I do to get more information?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Manish
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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