Add clarification about commitWithin setting and reindex If the commitWithin setting is low, it can cause the reindex to run slowly. Add a note in the documentation about this. Change-Id: If4c394443bde89be4bfc1505d33322089e671493
diff --git a/Documentation/config-gerrit.txt b/Documentation/config-gerrit.txt index 66f9d82..be6efc6 100644 --- a/Documentation/config-gerrit.txt +++ b/Documentation/config-gerrit.txt
@@ -1892,6 +1892,12 @@ very costly but may be useful if offline reindexing is infeasible, or for development servers. + +This setting also applies when running the reindex program. If it is +configured to commit on every write, this will cause reindex to take +an unnecessarily long time to complete on sites that have a lot of +changes. It is recommended to temporarily set a higher value while +running reindex. + Defaults to 300000 ms (5 minutes). Sample index configuration: