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+# Sonic
+# Fast, lightweight and schema-less search backend
+# Configuration file
+# Example: https://github.com/valeriansaliou/sonic/blob/master/config.cfg
+
+
+[server]
+
+log_level = "warn"
+
+
+[channel]
+
+inet = "0.0.0.0:1491"
+tcp_timeout = 300
+
+auth_password = "${env.SEARCH_BACKEND_PASSWORD}"
+
+[channel.search]
+
+query_limit_default = 65535
+query_limit_maximum = 65535
+query_alternates_try = 10
+
+suggest_limit_default = 5
+suggest_limit_maximum = 20
+
+
+[store]
+
+[store.kv]
+
+path = "/var/lib/sonic/store/kv/"
+
+retain_word_objects = 100000
+
+[store.kv.pool]
+
+inactive_after = 1800
+
+[store.kv.database]
+
+flush_after = 900
+
+compress = true
+parallelism = 2
+max_files = 100
+max_compactions = 1
+max_flushes = 1
+write_buffer = 16384
+write_ahead_log = true
+
+[store.fst]
+
+path = "/var/lib/sonic/store/fst/"
+
+[store.fst.pool]
+
+inactive_after = 300
+
+[store.fst.graph]
+
+consolidate_after = 180
+
+max_size = 2048
+max_words = 250000