I have a database of 21 giga byte and like to index is. The free space on the disk is 16 giga.
1-I recieve a error message indicating not enuff space for to build the full text index. Is it posible to specify a fix amound of space to the indexing process.
2-What is the space needed for the process
John Nivard
Subject: Full text indexing
The size of the FT index can only be guessed at, but is frequently as big as the database itself. If a large amount of (compressed) file attachments are indexed, the FT index may be considerably larger than the databases itself.
Subject: Full text indexing
Yes I know that but now the problem is not the sie of the index database but the sie of the process to rebuild the index database. I kow that the index itself is smaller.
The message is not enough space on dosk to build the index.
Can I allocat a space to rebuild the index
using a ini variable?
John Nivard
Subject: Full text indexing
I don’t know how to “hard-limit” the size of the index but there is a notes.ini setting to redirect the FTI caching from the systems TEMP directory (default) to a user specified location (where you have enough disk space available):
view_rebuild_dir=
example: view_rebuild_dir=e:\reindex
The size of the temporary index cache could be twice(!) the size of the DB. So to be save you would need up to 42 GB diskspace in your case. Generally Lotus advices to split such huge DBs in several smaller ones.