Hi Joe, I've experienced lots of segfaults too. Last I heard from David Balmain (Ferret's author) was that he knew what was causing it and is fixing it. That was last week, but he's been pretty busy with other things lately so I guess he can't predict when a new release will be due.
John. -- http://johnleach.co.uk On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 07:50 +0100, Joe Mestople wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using ferret and running into troubles with it seg faulting during > searches. The index I'm searching is static and is only updated in an > offline way once every couple weeks. > > The segfault isn't deterministically reproducible, but if I hammer > ferret hard enough I can reliably get it to crash. The problem seems to > have something to do with how memory is shared between Ruby and Ferret's > C code, for if I disable Ruby garbage collection the crashes go away. > > I can try to provide a repro, but I think it might be faster to do some > of the initial investigation on my own, even though I have no experience > with Ferret internals. Can someone give me some pointers on debugging > ferret? I assume I need to build a debug version out of SVN, but do I > need debug version or ruby as well? > > Thanks, > Joe > _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk
