[ALanJay]

Originally Posted by mute

Ah, I found the problem I think.

For whatever reason, on my initial index, despite having used --rotate, it is leaving *new* index files in my var dir:

[root@db2 var]# ls -la *new*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1356935444 Oct 2 13:39 vbpost.new.spd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10644727 Oct 2 13:39 vbpost.new.spi
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 54322284 Oct 2 13:42 vbthread.new.spd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 879893 Oct 2 13:42 vbthread.new.spi

Sphinx won't search against these, but I'm not sure why they didn't roll over.

I found the same thing but just renamed the files without the ".new" and all was fine.

The sugestion to nuke everything and start again without searchd running didn't seem to work either.

This is a case where the first time you create stuff there is an issue but after that it all works fine - when I update the DELTA files there doesn't seem to be an issue.