Distributed index support?

[Mike]

Hi,

I'm using Thinking Sphinx in production and it's been absolutely
great. As my traffic is growing, however, I'm trying to figure out
how to scale Sphinx to multiple servers. Does Thinking Sphinx support
building distributed indexes hosted by multiple Sphinx servers? I
couldn't find anything in the Thinking Sphinx documentation to show
how to do this.

I think I can build the sphinx conf files by hand if I had to, but I
just wasn't sure if Thinking Sphinx already supported this. I also
wasn't sure how deleting records would be handled in a multiple Sphinx
server setup.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Mike

[Pat Allan]

Hi Mike

There's not currently any support for distributed indexes in TS - that said, if the index definitions in your models match the indexes available to Sphinx, everything *should* work fine if you want to modify your conf file manually.

That said, if you can think of a nice way to have distributed indexes managed by TS's index definition syntax, I'd love to hear it, maybe I can craft a patch out of the concept. Feel free to take a stab at that yourself, if you want :)

Cheers

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Pat

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[Mike]

Thanks for the reply Pat - and thanks for a great plugin, it's been a
lifesaver for me.