Sphinx Search

[eoc_Jason]

Originally Posted by weeno

my searchd quit on its own today for unclear reasons. I restarted it manually.

How are you guys keeping it running? And why would it quit?

It has never died on my forum, but I have had rare instances where it does die every now and then on another forum that I help a guy out with. He is running x86_64, I'm still 32bit. Unfortunatly I could never find any logs or reason for it to die, it was just totally random it seemed.

On my site I use SIM from rfxnetworks (it does service monitoring and will restart a downed service). I just coded a custom addition for searchd. But I've never been notified of it going down (on my site). You could just as easly write a little cron script doing a 'ps aux | grep searchd' type thing... Or maybe something with inittab?


Unfortunatly I didn't get to work on any coding for sphinx this weekend due to some unexpected happenings. I have all the logic worked out in my head I just need to convert that into useable code.