I’m a big fan of Ferret as a low-headache, low barrier to entry search/indexing utility for Rails apps.
Recently though one of my servers kept seeing its disk usage spike to 100% unexplicably. I checked the usual suspects, log/ and tmp/ and found nothing.
Clueless, I reached out for a lil help from the pros. Hat tip Lourens for suggesting Ferret as a possible culprit.
When I nuked the index/ dir for the site UmmYeah—disk usage dropped from 100% to 33%! Woot.
... currently rebuilding the Ferret index. Let’s hope, when rebuilt from scratch, the bad boy is much more compact.
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