Updated: July 30th, 2021
The Problem
I am throwing up a quick post about a relatively cryptic error that Solr started throwing the other day here at Plaxo. After happily running for a few days, I suddenly started getting pages about failed Solr indexing.
Upon closer examination, I saw the following repeatedly in the log file:
catalina.2009-09-18.log:SEVERE: java.io.IOException: directory 'DATADIR/index' exists and is a directory, but cannot be listed: list() returned null |
I tried to see if sending an OPTIMIZE command would help but the server returned the same response.
Digging Deeper
The reason was these errors was quite simple – Solr was running …
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Well, it looks like the wait is over. I have been waiting for almost 5 years for a new phone that is good enough to make the switch from Samsung A900 (which has free tethering). Don't even get me started on the iPhone and its outrageous monopoly with AT&T. Android and the growing multitude of devices running it is, however, completely different business. Android offers unparallel freedom and I truly believe it will be the top phone OS within a few years as more and more Android phones are introduced to the market.
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Updated: July 30th, 2021
In the past few weeks I've been implementing advanced search at Plaxo, working quite closely with Solr enterprise search server. Today, I saw this relatively detailed comparison between Solr and its main competitor Sphinx (full credit goes to StackOverflow user mausch who had been using Solr for the past 2 years). For those still confused, Solr and Sphinx are similar to MySQL FULLTEXT search, or for those even more confused, think Google (yeah, this is a bit of a stretch, I know).
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