[RedWingFan]

Originally Posted by UK Jimbo

Those .new files relate to the --rotate option and the indexer read more about it here: http://sphinxsearch.com/docs/current.html#ref-indexer

That was what I suspected--something like a temporary file, IOW.

Originally Posted by UK Jimbo

I would suspect that something preventing the indexer from rotating the files out perhaps the file permissions?

Nothing has changed on the server, so I'd attribute it to some kind of glitch in one (or all?) of those files dating back to May. Permissions and ownership matches all the others in the same directory, which was the first thing I checked.

I just tried deleting the threaddelta files, and reran the command line:

/usr/home/shtv/sphinx/bin/indexer --config /usr/home/shtv/sphinx/bin/sphinx_rr.conf threaddelta

This created a new set of threaddelta.* files. OK, so far so good. But then I go and retry with the --rotate option, and we're back to having the .new.* files, and the threaddelta.* files don't get updated.

In the same directory, the post.* and postmeta.* files are all working properly.

Deeply weird...I could see if I had changed the configuration of this mess awhile ago, but I actually haven't touched it since July last year, when I first installed it. No other changes on the server, and we have plenty of disk space.

Still poring over the Sphinx docs you pointed to...but am not seeing much else helpful yet.

Thanks!