Hi Ken, Threads will not help with OutOfMemoryErrors or crashes caused by native libs. ForkParser can help, after the refactoring started by Tim to handle some of its limitations. See TIKA-2653
2018-05-29 16:11 GMT-03:00 Ken Krugler <kkrugler_li...@transpac.com>: > Thanks for the ref, Tim. > > I’m curious why SolrCell doesn’t fire up threads when parsing docs with > Tika (or use the fork parser), to mitigate issues with hangs & crashes? > > — Ken > > > On May 29, 2018, at 11:54 AM, Tim Allison <talli...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > All, > > > > Over the weekend, Shawn Heisey very kindly drafted a wikipage about the > > challenges of using Solr's ExtractingRequestHandler and the guidance to > > avoid it in production. > > > > I completely agree with this point, and I think that Shawn did a very > > nice job of capturing some of the challenges. If you have any feedback > or > > would like to make edits, see: > > > > https://wiki.apache.org/solr/RecommendCustomIndexingWithTika > > > > Cheers, > > > > Tim > > -------------------------------------------- > http://about.me/kkrugler > +1 530-210-6378 > >