Sounds like you have disk problems or catalog corruption problems. Can you
run a checkdisk on your disk.
It if comes back clean can you try to drop and recreate your catalog(s)?

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> Hi, when triying to reindex a full text catalog of 25 million rows, the
> process hangs when reaching the row 7 to 12 million, after 12 hours of
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Mauro SB. - 29 May 2007 15:09 GMT
disks already cheked , the catalog was recreated many times, always with the
same error.
is there any "good practice" on populating large FT indexes?
greetings
Mauro
> Sounds like you have disk problems or catalog corruption problems. Can you
> run a checkdisk on your disk.
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>> any idea?
>> greetings!
Hilary Cotter - 30 May 2007 14:04 GMT
Is it possible you have some antivirus software running on this machine or
another process which is accessing some of the catalog files? You may need
to run filemon to determine this.

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> disks already cheked , the catalog was recreated many times, always with
> the same error.
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>>> any idea?
>>> greetings!
Mauro SB. - 30 May 2007 18:18 GMT
Tnks Hilary i ll check that
Mauro
> Is it possible you have some antivirus software running on this machine or
> another process which is accessing some of the catalog files? You may need
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>>>> any idea?
>>>> greetings!