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Posted by Lucvdv on May 14, 2007, 3:36 am
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WDS has worked reasonably well for me since I installed it, I think about a
month and a half ago.
I say 'reasonably', because for some reason, it failed to index any e-mails
older than a few months (the oldest it finds seem to be from last January).
Now suddenly, over the weekend, it tries to fill up my harddisk. The total
size of all items it has to index is about 20 GB. The index is 12.5 GB
large already, and the indexing status says it only has less than 1%
indexed.
My system has 2 physical harddisks, one of which is split in 2 partitions;
besides that there's a NAS I use to store things like downloaded setups and
documentation files, and there's outlook.
WDS is set to index:
- Desktop, "my documents" etc. (not much in there) on my OS (C:) drive
- All of my data (D:) drive, currently 15 GB/53,856 files, mostly source
and the object and intermediate files generated by compilers.
- Nothing on my 'work' drive (E:) -- that's where it stores its index.
- Outlook (3 sets of personal folders: one 'normal', one with archived
'normal' mails, and one with archived mails routed there by filters).
- The subtree on the NAS where documentation files are stored, currently
1.5 GB / 1826 files, mostly PDF.
This morning when I came in, my E: drive where the index is stored was
nearly full. I found out that it's WDS: the index has grown from some 3 GB
to more than 12GB over the weekend.
When I check the index status, it says:
Items indexed so far: 354,581
Items left to scan: 38,932,707
The first figure could be about right for the total number of files +
e-mails it has to index. In TOTAL.
The last figure keeps going up all the time.
Both numbers were in the 6 digit range before the weekend.
The "left to scan" has gone from 38,932,707 to 38,940,437 by the time I'm
typing this.
I've got a monitoring system running that records free disk space on all my
drives at regular intervals, and based on what I find there, I estimate
that the indexing process started running out of control at midnight on
Saturday.
That it was running is already abnormal by itself, the system was supposed
to be in standby at that time. It 'wakes up' to do a backup at 7 AM each
morning, but often when I come into the office around 8 it has already gone
back to standby, so it definitely shouldn't be running on a Saturday night.
It kept on indexing and eating disk space all through yesterday (Sunday)
and was still busy this morning (Monday) when I came in, yet the power
options say it should go to standby after 1 hour of not being used - and
I've seen often enough that that works like it should.
BTW, It's not a virus/worm/trojan/bot thing that's sending out spam mails
from my machine that are all being indexed: those would be stopped or at
least logged by the local mail server. SMTP port is closed both ways at
the firewall so all mails have to go by our mail server first, all outgoing
mails are logged (addresses and subject lines), and those logs are clean.
The "items left to scan" just passed the 39,000,000 barrier, "items
indexed" hasn't changed yet.
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Posted by Lucvdv on May 14, 2007, 5:41 am
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On Mon, 14 May 2007 09:36:40 +0200, I wrote:
> Now suddenly, over the weekend, it tries to fill up my harddisk. The total
> size of all items it has to index is about 20 GB. The index is 12.5 GB
> large already, and the indexing status says it only has less than 1%
> indexed.
I thought setting it to "Snooze Indexing" would stop it until I found a
solution: that doesn't seem to work.
The status window now says "Indexer snoozing", but the "Items left to scan"
just keeps growing as fast as before.
According to task manager, 'searchindexer.exe' is using 30% CPU. When I
leave the keyboard and mouse alone for a while it first jumps up to 60%,
shortly after that it goes to 100% and stays there until I move my mouse.
I guess I'll have to disable the service alltogether.
Then a new problem: it stopped finding files it still found last week.
I just started a search for a file of which I know it *must* find it (I
knew the location, it was supposed to be indexed, just wanted a faster way
to open it by entering some text that's in it): zero results.
I tried some more seaches: all it finds, for any search, are e-mails. Not
even all e-mails, no 'documents' results at all. Last week it still tended
to find some files, but today their number is zero.
I'd expect a bit more of a result from a 12.5 GB index where the total of
mails + files to be indexed is only 20 GB.
Back to Google desktop search (which I uninstalled in favor of this
"Non-Working Desktop Search")?
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Posted by Lucvdv on May 14, 2007, 6:02 am
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> I guess I'll have to disable the service alltogether.
Uninstall time, I think.
Stopping the service and setting it to manual start (instead of automatic)
causes it to be restarted after a while, usually within less than a minute.
Setting it to disabled causes a seemingly endless series of error messages
saying that it can't be started to appear in event log.
Leaving it running fills my harddisk at a rate between 50 and 100 MB/hour.
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Posted by Lucvdv on May 15, 2007, 5:30 am
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> When I check the index status, it says:
>
> Items indexed so far: 354,581
> Items left to scan: 38,932,707
>
> The first figure could be about right for the total number of files +
> e-mails it has to index. In TOTAL.
It works again (or at least looks like it does), after:
1) Uninstalled & reinstalled WDS. Index is deleted when you do.
2) Outlook was no longer listed as available location after reinstall.
Ran Office Repair, it came back. Maybe the problem fixed by o.repair was
wat made the WDS indexer go berzerk?
3) Ran scanpst.exe (program files\common\system\MSMAPI\*) on all pst files.
It did find some errors, maybe one of those put the WDS indexer in an
endless loop?
Indexing is partially complete (about 20% I guess, based on the 350,000
items I had before), and a quick estimate of what it will become based on
already indexed / final total items / current index size, says that it will
reach a little bit over 3 GB - about the same size it had last Friday.
Better than the 12.5 G I had yesterday with 99% still to be indexed ;)
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