Django sphinx works only after app restart - django

Question

I've set up django-sphinx in my project, which works perfectly only for some time. Later it always returns empty result set. Surprisingly restarting django app fixes it. And search works again but again only for short time (or very limiter number of queries). Heres my sphinx.conf:
source src_questions
{
# data source
type = mysql
sql_host = xxxxxx
sql_user = xxxxxx #replace with your db username
sql_pass = xxxxxx #replace with your db password
sql_db = xxxxxx #replace with your db name
# these two are optional
sql_port = xxxxxx
#sql_sock = /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
# pre-query, executed before the main fetch query
sql_query_pre = SET NAMES utf8
# main document fetch query
sql_query = SELECT q.id AS id, q.title AS title, q.tagnames AS tags, q.html AS text, q.level AS level \
FROM question AS q \
WHERE q.deleted=0 \
# optional - used by command-line search utility to display document information
sql_query_info = SELECT title, id, level FROM question WHERE id=$id
sql_attr_uint = level
}
index questions {
# which document source to index
source = src_questions
# this is path and index file name without extension
# you may need to change this path or create this folder
path = /home/rafal/index/index_questions
# docinfo (ie. per-document attribute values) storage strategy
docinfo = extern
# morphology
morphology = stem_en
# stopwords file
#stopwords = /var/data/sphinx/stopwords.txt
# minimum word length
min_word_len = 3
# uncomment next 2 lines to allow wildcard (*) searches
min_infix_len = 1
enable_star = 1
# charset encoding type
charset_type = utf-8
}
# indexer settings
indexer
{
# memory limit (default is 32M)
mem_limit = 64M
}
# searchd settings
searchd
{
# IP address on which search daemon will bind and accept
# optional, default is to listen on all addresses,
# ie. address = 0.0.0.0
address = 127.0.0.1
# port on which search daemon will listen
port = 3312
# searchd run info is logged here - create or change the folder
log = ../log/sphinx.log
# all the search queries are logged here
query_log = ../log/query.log
# client read timeout, seconds
read_timeout = 5
# maximum amount of children to fork
max_children = 30
# a file which will contain searchd process ID
pid_file = searchd.pid
# maximum amount of matches this daemon would ever retrieve
# from each index and serve to client
max_matches = 1000
}
and heres my search part from views.py:
content = Question.search.query(keywords)
if level:
content = content.filter(level=level)#level is array of integers
There are no errors in any logs, it just isnt returning any results. I have set 'indexer --rotate --all' to be run every 5 mins in cron, and searchd is up and running all time.
All help would be most appreciated.

Answer 1

What's the version of sphinx? django-sphinx? sphinxsearch api? python?
Anyway, try to remove the indexer from the cron & see if this problem persists. Let me know how this goes.