[ome-users] NullPointerException in FileMaker

[Chris Allan]

Hi Harri,

On 7 Aug 2012, at 13:16, Harri Jäälinoja wrote:

> On 07/08/12 10:59, Chris Allan wrote:
>> especially on the Files and Index portions of the binary repository. You may wish to store your Index on local disk, it will be faster, less prone to corruption and should be small anyway. Storing your PostgreSQL data directory on NFS is probably a very bad idea unless you have a really good understanding of the semantics of the NFS data store you're using.
>> 
> 
> Hi Chris,
> thanks for your advice. I wrote to the computing center, it seems we can get some 400GB space for the database.
> 
> Where is the Index portion located? I don't see it in the binary repository:
> 
> [root at lmu-omero2 ~]# ls /data/OMERO/
> DropBox  Files  FullText  Pixels  Thumbnails

http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/support/omero4/server/binary-repository

It's the FullText directory.

> 
> How many GB do you recommend to dedicate for the index?

How much you allocate to the full text index depends greatly on the amount and type of data you have. Usually it's between 50% and 100% of the size of your PostgreSQL database.

> 
> Thanks,
> Harri

-Chris