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[amirm]

Our server is near max space so the indexing system has decided to shut down. I have messed with it for a few hours to override to no avail. Search still works but as of what was here a week or so ago.

I have provisioned a new server with double the storage but have not had the opportunity to bring it online. Plan to do so next week.

Note that this also impacts searching for yours and other people's posts.

 

[Jimster480]

Our server is near max space so the indexing system has decided to shut down. I have messed with it for a few hours to override to no avail. Search still works but as of what was here a week or so ago.

I have provisioned a new server with double the storage but have not had the opportunity to bring it online. Plan to do so next week.

Note that this also impacts searching for yours and other people's posts.

Have you tried ElasticSearch? I use it on my XF board.


There are also some extensions which do compression, especially of images which helps to save space on a forum like this.

 

[JSmith]

Our server is near max space so the indexing system has decided to shut down. I have messed with it for a few hours to override to no avail. Search still works but as of what was here a week or so ago.

How frustrating for you.

I have provisioned a new server with double the storage but have not had the opportunity to bring it online. Plan to do so next week.

Thanks for the heads up and expanding server capacity.


JSmith

 

[Juanrdp]

There is any way to support you to feed the hamsters?

I pass more time here lurking and learning than talking to my wife and i feel bad about it (that you need a bigger server, not the talking part xD)

 

[DonH56]

Ouch! That sucks...

I hate computers, spent a few hours tonight trying to figure out why half my network devices went "poof" and getting them back. Installed a new mesh system, which I have been loving, but apparently one of the nodes jumped to a different one to connect and a bunch of stuff glitched, then an extension cord decided to unexpectedly quit working on one of the outlets and killed other stuff (modem was on one side, which stayed working, but the SONOS bridge was on the other side and for some reason became unpowered). The bad cord was fun; it would randomly reconnect as I moved things around, and I could not see the power lights above the desk whilst I was underneath. New Anker 12-plug extension ordered to replace the current 6-plug strip and cheap ext cord so a solution is in the works, but I'll have to take down the network to swap and can't do that easily (or at all tomorrow as wife is working from home due to some medical issues). I am not a network guy, barely a computer guy, just use the things.

 

[DonH56]

There is any way to support you to feed the hamsters?

I pass more time here lurking and learning than talking to my wife and i feel bad about it (that you need a bigger server, not the talking part xD)

Click on the Donations link at the top of the page:

 

[Jimster480]

Ouch! That sucks...

I hate computers, spent a few hours tonight trying to figure out why half my network devices went "poof" and getting them back. Installed a new mesh system, which I have been loving, but apparently one of the nodes jumped to a different one to connect and a bunch of stuff glitched, then an extension cord decided to unexpectedly quit working on one of the outlets and killed other stuff (modem was on one side, which stayed working, but the SONOS bridge was on the other side and for some reason became unpowered). The bad cord was fun; it would randomly reconnect as I moved things around, and I could not see the power lights above the desk whilst I was underneath. New Anker 12-plug extension ordered to replace the current 6-plug plus cheap cord so a solution is in the works, but I'll have to take down the network to swap and can't do that easily (or at all tomorrow as wife is working from home due to some medical issues). I am not a network guy, barely a computer guy, just use the things.

Mesh access points are a headache. I prefer hard wiring and then just attaching access points to expand coverage.

 

[RickS]

Thanks, I had noticed the search issue and got busy and forgot to ask.

Anything we can do in the meanwhile? Fewer posts with graphics or attachments? Delete older PMs?

 

[DonH56]

Mesh access points are a headache. I prefer hard wiring and then just attaching access points to expand coverage.

No hardline in the house so must go wireless. Bad decision/lack of thought when we built the place 30+ years ago. I have a router upstairs (where the cable modem lives) but needed an extender to reach the basement, which was a PITA. I did not realize until I had it working that it creates a subnet so some stuff is not visible to the rest of the network. Our power is not all that reliable, so had to manually reconnect after a glitch, and some things can not reach the upstairs router (everything there is on a UPS). A power outage meant an hour-plus to get everything up and running again. Much easier now, but I've only had the mesh a few weeks, and this is the first time it messed up. Not sure what glitched, though I've read people have to periodically reboot the routers/nodes.

I am not sure what was up with my AC1900 Linksys router, but it was throttling my Internet speed to about 80 Mb/s, and now with the new ASUS router I am getting 800+ Mb/s. A cable company tech looked at it for a while, and we piddled with settings, but finally gave up and I told him that would be the final shove to update the system.

The good news is I figured out a lot more stuff in the ASUS app, and was able to assign meaningful names for some stuff (still a bunch I don't know), but I am up hours past my bedtime as the system had to work again for my wife to use in the morning.

 

[amirm]

Have you tried ElasticSearch

Elastic search is what we are using! It has a high watermark of 95% disk usage which we hit. I then freed space down to 91% but won't restart because it has a low watermark setting of 80% or some such thing. I tried disabling this but it refuses to take.

 

[amirm]

Anything we can do in the meanwhile? Fewer posts with graphics or attachments? Delete older PMs?

Thanks but no. We need to free up gigabytes of storage. I already freed up space last time which got it working. So this time was much harder to find waste. Still, per above I found a few gigabytes but it is still not enough for it to restart.

 

[ZolaIII]

If pictures are a problem introducing HEIF might help and doing conversation on the flight (to reduce what they take in half). Or at least doing so for not optimised JPG and PNG ones.
Edit: actually forget about it, Google doesn't support it and doesn't plan too (won't become part of the Chrome).

 

[Soniclife]

Mesh access points are a headache.

Our TP link one has been a maintenance free joy, some minor config to override it's dumb auto config, and then it just works. I hate networks in general though, they are a massive pain when they get flaky.

 

[Jimster480]

No hardline in the house so must go wireless. Bad decision/lack of thought when we built the place 30+ years ago. I have a router upstairs (where the cable modem lives) but needed an extender to reach the basement, which was a PITA. I did not realize until I had it working that it creates a subnet so some stuff is not visible to the rest of the network. Our power is not all that reliable, so had to manually reconnect after a glitch, and some things can not reach the upstairs router (everything there is on a UPS). A power outage meant an hour-plus to get everything up and running again. Much easier now, but I've only had the mesh a few weeks, and this is the first time it messed up. Not sure what glitched, though I've read people have to periodically reboot the routers/nodes.

I am not sure what was up with my AC1900 Linksys router, but it was throttling my Internet speed to about 80 Mb/s, and now with the new ASUS router I am getting 800+ Mb/s. A cable company tech looked at it for a while, and we piddled with settings, but finally gave up and I told him that would be the final shove to update the system.

The good news is I figured out a lot more stuff in the ASUS app, and was able to assign meaningful names for some stuff (still a bunch I don't know), but I am up hours past my bedtime as the system had to work again for my wife to use in the morning.

If you have Cable (Coax) have you considered MoCA? It works GREAT if you install a line filter. I used it in my previous house for Gbit across the house and setup a second access point downstairs.

 

[Endibol]

Our server is near max space so the indexing system has decided to shut down. I have messed with it for a few hours to override to no avail. Search still works but as of what was here a week or so ago.

I have provisioned a new server with double the storage but have not had the opportunity to bring it online. Plan to do so next week.

Note that this also impacts searching for yours and other people's posts.

That’s not funny at all.. hope you get it up and running again soon! Now I realize how addicted I got to this fantastic forum..

 

[RickS]

The good news is that at least it is not my memory that is faltering!

 

[Old_School_Brad]

Here's another image for your overworked server:

 

[Esprit]

Our server is near max space so the indexing system has decided to shut down

A good reason to donate to the forum.

 

[Barrelhouse Solly]

In a way this is a good thing. It means that ASR is doing well. It's a law of IT that demand for storage capacity is an infinite series that does not converge.

 

[Timcognito]