[Zope] manage_convertIndexes on large-ish catalogs

[Michael Vartanyan]

Hi Chris!

After various attempts to get through the right way, I did simply the 
following:

1. Clear catalog
2. manage_covertIndexes
3. start looping through objects reindexing them and calling 
commit_transaction() on each 100-chunk (or 1000 or whatever your RAM can 
bear)
4. go have a coffee/walk/sleep (depending on the size of your catalog)
5. enjoy!

Dumb, slow, but works quite well!


Chris Withers wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Moving a site from 2.7 to 2.9, so I need to run manage_covertIndexes.
>
> The only problem is that, on the main catalog, this sends the machine 
> into swap death.
>
> Anyone else experienced this? If so, how did you getaround it?
>
> cheers,
>
> Chris
>