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How to use asynchronous reindexing

To manage indexes, navigate to Index management section.

Managing indexes​

From Actions drop-down menu, you can select mass-actions that can be performed on selected indices:

  • Update on save: set mode of selected indices to Update on Save mode.
  • Update by schedule: set mode of selected indices to Update on Schedule mode.
  • Invalidete index: mark the selected indices as invalid. Magento will require them to be reindexed before data can be used.
  • Reindex: run a reindex of the selected indices immediately.
  • Schedule full reindex: schedule selected indices to the next run of our cron task.
  • Run full reindex: perform full reindex on selected indices.
  • Reindex pending items: our extension runs reindex only for those chunks of reindexed data which have been changed. This action is useful when a reindex is needed for very large indices.
    note

    If you have scheduled a reindex, but also run this action - it does not cancel the schedule, since data will be updated only partially.

Managing Crontasks​

Our extension adds two new cron tasks that will help you to manage your indices. They are:

  • indexer_reindex_scheduled - runs reindex on scheduled indices (see above for details).
  • indexer_validate - validates indexed data.
    note

    For now, only the products' data is validated.

These cron tasks are executed every second by default. The reindex queue is accompanied by a special lock-file indexer.cli.lock, located in the /var/tmp by default. It prevents conflicts when a previous reindexing cron task is not finished, but a new one has already started.

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If you wish to adjust the time of reindexing schedule (for example, for performance tuning), you need to manually adjust crontab in this config XML file: /src/vendor/mirasvit/module-indexer/src/Indexer/etc/crontab.xml

  1. Find the task names corresponding to cron in this file <job> tag mentioned above, and in the <schedule> child tag adjust execution period.
  2. Then run the bin/magento setup:upgrade command, clean cache, and regenerate static content to apply all changes.