Hi,
Need help in understanding how rebuild_index works with multiple workers.
I am using django 1.8.4, Whoosh 2.7.4 and django-haystack 2.6.0 to build out a search functionality on a database of 5 million records. My environment is Ubuntu and MacOSx.
When I use the multiple workers option, I am not getting the total 5M records in the index. I have tested this with a smaller subset of 1200 records and found that I can only get all 1200 records into the index when I have one worker. I have tried with several different batch sizes and different number of workers and it is always the case where only a subset of records get indexed.
Is this a known problem? I saw some issues reported on this topic in the Github repository but not sure if they have been resolved or not. When I run with multiple workers, the logs look fine and there are no errors around files getting locked or file not accessible which is something I would expect if multiple workers are trying to write into the file. I have allocated 150GB of space to the volume where indexed data is being stored and my server has 64 GB memory. So I am sure that this not due to lack of storage or lack of memory.
I would really like to use the multiple workers option to cut down the indexing time to a few hours instead of 12-14 hours.
Thank you,
Purbasha