squatter indexes

[twk]

David Carter wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, Andrew Morgan wrote:
> 
> 
> That's what I do (squatter -s overnight).
> 
> It does take quite a long time to complete, and it eats CPU even on my
> fast but typically rather bored Pentium 4 Xeons.

We could never get the squatter runs to complete in 24 hours on our Sun 
Enterprise 250's, even if we ran them around the clock.

> 
> 
>>Part of my reasoning for this was just to get rid of the annoying:
>
>SQUAT failed to open index file
>messages in the syslogs.  :)
> 

When I discovered that these SQUAT files were taking up 5% of our 100G 
SAN drives. We decided that the potential benefits (shortened search 
times) were not worth the resources consumed to provide these benefits.

It was most certainly not worth doing just to eliminate an annoying 
error message from the logs.

YMMV.

Cheers,
Tom


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