I see this sort of thing (once per model) every time I run the index rake task. Where would I go about setting these defaults to a sane value, and where can I find documentation with what sanity would mean in that context?

indexing index 'title_core'...
WARNING: collect_hits: mem_limit=0 kb too low, increasing to 14592 kb
collected 1466 docs, 820.1 MB
WARNING: sort_hits: merge_block_size=108 kb too low, increasing mem_limit may improve performance

Thanks in advance,

Walter

The setting you're after is mem_limit - which I think at some point had a default of 32M, but Sphinx has now decided it must be set, I guess.

You can customise it in config/sphinx.yml (which you'll need to create if you don't have it already):

  development:
    mem_limit: 64M

Set as high or low as you like... it depends on how much data you're dealing with, but maybe 128M is a good starting point? Also, keep in mind that this is just the memory limit for the indexing process, not the daemon.

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Pat

On 10/09/2012, at 5:45 PM, Walter Lee Davis wrote: