# Ferret creating new index files

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ferret-creating-new-index-files/153596>\
**Category:** Ferret\
**Created:** [November 19, 2008, 7:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ferret-creating-new-index-files/153596 "2008-11-19T07:21:17Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 7:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ferret-creating-new-index-files/153596/1 "2008-11-19T07:21:17Z")

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Hi,

We generate our index on another server and then rsync it over nightly  
to each webserver. We run  
an old version of AAF on our rails site. The index represents an  
inventory model which is never touched by the rails app (i.e. we never  
add/update/delete inventory from rails). Also we only issue  
find\_by\_contents and more\_like\_this calls on the index and nothing more.  
We don’t update the index from the webservers ever. In other words, the  
index should be strictly read only.

However, I notice throughout the day that files appear in the index. A  
fresh index typically looks like this:  
\_4p.cfs  
segments  
segments\_4q

But by the end of the day this same index will look like:  
\_4p\_7.del  
\_4p.cfs  
\_4q.cfs  
\_4r.cfs  
\_4s.cfs  
\_4t.cfs  
\_4u.cfs  
\_4v.cfs  
\_4w.cfs  
\_4x.cfs  
segments  
segments\_56

Also, if you do an index.size on a fresh index versus one with a lot of  
extra files, the size is the same.

Is this normal? The reason I ask mostly is that ferret seg faults  
continually throughout the day for us, and I thought that it might be  
related to these extra files appearing.

Thanks