Re: Paused? I don't have no stinking time for pausing!

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"Hilary Cotter" <hilary.cotter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> when you run profiler does it show lots of activity from PKM, specifically
> calls to sp_fulltext_getdata.

Well, I sorta "gave in"

I had a suspicion that a 4-5 of the full-text indices I moved may have been
the source of the problem (because I ended up having to hand edit their
registry entries.)

Removing those and the remaining ones started to work.

So now just running an incremental build on the ones that are behind.

Thanks for the help Hilary.


>
> --
> Hilary Cotter
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>
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> http://www.indexserverfaq.com
>
> "Greg D. Moore (Strider)" <mooregr_deleteth1s@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message
> news:Awtie.39724$ia6.30323@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > "Hilary Cotter" <hilary.cotter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:OImpBB2VFHA.2196@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > I am not sure what you mean by restarted in your original post? Do you
> > mean
> > > a reboot? If not, I would reboot your server to see if this clears the
> > > condition. It is baffling.
> >
> > Well, restarted means just that, stopping and restarting all the
services
> in
> > question.
> >
> > No joy.
> >
> > So today I rebooted the box, and still no joy.
> >
> >
> > So I completely removed one index, including the catalog and recreated
it
> > from scratch.
> >
> > Now at least the status is 1 - population in progress.
> >
> > Yet after 4 hours, nothing has been indexed.
> >
> > Very strange.
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Hilary Cotter
> > > Looking for a SQL Server replication book?
> > > http://www.nwsu.com/0974973602.html
> > >
> > > Looking for a FAQ on Indexing Services/SQL FTS
> > > http://www.indexserverfaq.com
> > >
> > > "Greg D. Moore (Strider)" <mooregr_deleteth1s@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> > message
> > > news:cnvge.26735$ia6.20761@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > >
> > > > "Hilary Cotter" <hilary.cotter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > > > news:O0yvusjVFHA.3176@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > > > MSSearch will pause for several reasons; low disk space; memory
> > > pressures,
> > > > > or if you are running on battery power.
> > > > >
> > > > > Use the gatherlog utility to see if it gives any more hints as to
> why
> > > they
> > > > > are paused. You can find it in C:\Program Files\Common
> > > Files\MSSearch\Bin
> > > > > and it is called gthrlog.vbs. Copy this file to %windir%\system32
> > > > >
> > > > > Then open a command prompt and navigate to the C:\Program
> > > Files\Microsoft
> > > > > SQL Server\MSSQL\FTData\SQLServer\Gatherlogs
> > > > >
> > > > > then do a dir /od locate a recent log and do this
> > > > >
> > > > > cscript.exe gthrlog.vbs SQL0000600005.1.gthr
> > > > >
> > > > > Replacing SQL0000600005.1.gthr with the name of your log.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Ok, to reduce the number of variables, I did this on the full text
> index
> > > in
> > > > a different database that I did not touch: (i.e. it's not due to me
> > moving
> > > > stuff, etc...)
> > > >
> > > > Results are:
> > > >
> > > > Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.6
> > > > Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 1996-2001. All rights reserved.
> > > >
> > > > 5/10/2005 11:22:04 AM Add The gatherer has started
> > > > 5/10/2005 11:22:12 AM Add The recovery has completed
> > > > 5/10/2005 11:38:52 AM Add The gatherer has started
> > > > 5/10/2005 11:39:04 AM Add The recovery has completed
> > > > 5/10/2005 12:13:52 PM Add The gatherer has started
> > > > 5/10/2005 12:14:02 PM Add The recovery has completed
> > > > 5/10/2005 1:28:02 PM Add The gatherer has started
> > > > 5/10/2005 1:28:10 PM Add The recovery has completed
> > > > 5/10/2005 2:03:02 PM Add The gatherer has started
> > > > 5/10/2005 2:03:12 PM Add The recovery has completed
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Yet, the index is still paused.
> > > >
> > > > Just tried to STOP the population on this paused index.
> > > >
> > > > The tail of the new gather file shows:
> > > >
> > > > 5/11/2005 5:59:14 PM mssql75://sqlserver/2dffd964/00004418 Add
> > > > Error fe
> > > > tching URL, (80040d54 - The filtering has been aborted because of a
> user
> > > > action,
> > > > such as stopping the crawl. )
> > > > 5/11/2005 5:59:14 PM mssql75://sqlserver/2dffd964/00004c9a Add
> > > > Error fe
> > > > tching URL, (80040d54 - The filtering has been aborted because of a
> user
> > > > action,
> > > > such as stopping the crawl. )
> > > > 5/11/2005 5:59:14 PM mssql75://sqlserver/2dffd964/000043e6 Add
> > > > Error fe
> > > > tching URL, (80040d54 - The filtering has been aborted because of a
> user
> > > > action,
> > > > such as stopping the crawl. )
> > > > 5/11/2005 5:59:14 PM Add Completed Incremental
crawl
> > > >
> > > > And the index still shows itself as paused.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Looking at a gather file on the index (which I did move) in the
> original
> > > DB:
> > > >
> > > > Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.6
> > > > Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 1996-2001. All rights reserved.
> > > >
> > > > 5/10/2005 11:22:04 AM Add The gatherer has started
> > > > 5/10/2005 11:22:10 AM Add The initialization has
> completed
> > > > 5/10/2005 11:38:52 AM Add The gatherer has started
> > > > 5/10/2005 11:39:00 AM Add The initialization has
> completed
> > > > 5/10/2005 12:13:52 PM Add The gatherer has started
> > > > 5/10/2005 12:13:58 PM Add The initialization has
> completed
> > > > 5/10/2005 1:28:02 PM Add The gatherer has started
> > > > 5/10/2005 1:28:08 PM Add The initialization has
> completed
> > > > 5/10/2005 2:03:02 PM Add The gatherer has started
> > > > 5/10/2005 2:03:08 PM Add The initialization has
> completed
> > > >
> > > > And
> > > >
> > > > select fulltextcatalogproperty('foo_bar_1998','populatestatus') as
> > > > populatestatus , count(*) as '1998',
> > > > fulltextcatalogproperty('foo_bar_1998','itemcount') as itemcount,
> > > > fulltextcatalogproperty('foo_bar_1998','IndexSize') as IndexSize,
> > > > fulltextcatalogproperty('foo_bar_1998','UniqueKeyCount') as
> > > > UniqueKeycount,fulltextcatalogproperty('foo_bar_1998','Logsize') as
> > > >
> LogSize,fulltextcatalogproperty('foo_bar_1998','PopulateCompletionAge')
> > as
> > > > PopulateCompletionAge from foo_bar_1998 (nolock)
> > > >
> > > > returns:
> > > > Populate status 1998 itemcount, indexssize,
uniquekeycount,
> > > > logsize populatecompletionage
> > > > 2 441 442 2
> > > > 72004 328 482772780
> > > >
> > > > Now, this index had been fully populated before any of these
problems
> > > > happened, so it should be fine. (i.e. no reason to pause, etc.)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I'm bewildered at this point.
> > > >
> > > > Any other thoughts. (I mean worse comes to worse I'll simply destroy
> the
> > > > indices and rebuild them, but then I'll lose a week or two of time
> > waiting
> > > > for the larger ones.)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > This should reveal more details as to why MSSearch is pausing.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > Hilary Cotter
> > > > > Looking for a SQL Server replication book?
> > > > > http://www.nwsu.com/0974973602.html
> > > > >
> > > > > Looking for a FAQ on Indexing Services/SQL FTS
> > > > > http://www.indexserverfaq.com
> > > > >
> > > > > "Greg D. Moore (Strider)" <mooregr_deleteth1s@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
in
> > > > message
> > > > > news:Axfge.25950$ia6.18501@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > > > > Ok, why are my indices all paused?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Ran out of diskspace the other day. Stopped the Service, moved
> the
> > > > > indices
> > > > > > to another drive (had a little problem with 1-2 of them which I
> > > believe
> > > > > I've
> > > > > > fixed.)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Have restarted, and every full text index on the machine,
> including
> > > one
> > > > in
> > > > > a
> > > > > > different DB is in a paused state.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > They have data and a search on them returns data.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > But select fultextcatalogproperty('foo','populatestatus')
returns
> 2.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > What's up with that?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > (This is on SQL 2000. Thankfully finally I'm moving off of SQL
> > 7.0).
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > --
> > > > > > --
> > > > > > Greg D. Moore
> > > > > > President Green Mountain Software
> > > > > > Personal: http://stratton.greenms.com
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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