I enabled Full Text indexing on my server using the Server Administrator but now my users are seeing really bad performance

[natechadwick]

When I try to turn off the full text indexing it gives a warning and won't let me change it. How do I roll back the change?

[natechadwick]

When full text indexing is turned on for the first time, the system will try to assemble and index every single item in the content repository (even archived content). If you have a lot of content, that can definitely cause performance issues. It's a good idea to enable that feature on a Friday night before a long weekend to give the indexing time to run during a time when users won't be actively using the system.

Once the first indexing run completes, content will get indexed as it is updated, and that doesn't affect overall system performance.

If indexing has already started you can pause it using the browser based Admin Console.

/Rhythmyx/ui/admin or /ui/admin depending on version:

The command is:

search queue pause

This will stop the indexer from processing the current index queue.

The Server Admin tool is basically an editor for the {InstallDir}/rxconfig/Server/config.xml file. This file contains an xml block with 2 properties that can affect full text indexing:

<PSXSearchConfig adminMaster="yes" maxSearchResult="-1" fullTextSearchEnabled="yes" traceEnabled="no">
      <Properties>
         <Property name="indexRootDir">sys_search/lucene</Property>
         <Property name="synonym_expansion">no</Property>
         <Property name="index_on_startup">yes</Property>
      </Properties>`
<PSXSearchConfig>

Setting fullTextSearchEnabled="no" will disable full text indexing on the server. Setting index_on_startup to no will tell the server to not start indexing on startup.