Out-of-control indexing

[Norm Tovey-Walsh]

Hi,

I’m reporting this because it happened, not because I think it’s a useful bug report. But FYI.

I was trying to update my mail in Emacs and I got a message about “database locked by another process”. Odd, I thought. So I quit Emacs and restarted. Same thing. I looked at the running processes and saw an mu process running. I tried to kill -9 it, but it persisted. So I rebooted.

Chaos reigned.

My disk was 100% full. (I have never seen the reply “insufficient disk space” from an “rm” command before.)

I managed to get a terminal window in a recovery session. Since it was mu acting oddly that prompted me to reboot, I thought I’d delete it’s cache. That got me 600G back. I don’t know how or why or with what mu had completely filled my disk, but apparently it had.

For comparison, my now rebuilt index is about 1.5G.

Be seeing you,
norm

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Norm Tovey-Walsh <n...@nwalsh.com>
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