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Browse All TopicsWhy would the indexer create an over 1gb .ci file after generating much smaller files in the past. This is a sudden change. I am not the only person with admin rights- but I didn't see any wild changes.
Normal or even surge document or site additions shouldnt create that large of a file...
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by: zephyr_hexPosted on 2009-11-09 at 09:48:12ID: 25778207
adding content types to index, or ifilters...
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that would add more items
or, adding a lot of new content to your site
http://blogs.msdn.com/joel
see here for how to optimize:
http://blogs.msdn.com/joel
(you'll see that one of the recommendations is to remove certain types of ifilters)