On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 15:52:01 -0000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have progressed with my attempt at writing an external parser, chained > to the internal parser, and it looks like I am quite close to success. > > Having indexed most of the 200,000 documents that I asked it to do, > Htdig 3.1.6 did a core-dump on me. I therefore looked through the log, > and noticed that the last 29 file requests all contained messages > stating: "Fork Failure in ExternalParser" > Can anyone give me any insight onto what is causing this, and whether it > might be related to my core dump?
It would be helpful if you told us the OS and the language you wrote the parser in, but the first place I'd look is that your parser doesn't exit cleanly so you're left with all the old processes, or that it doesn't release files and you've run over the limit of open files. Both these limits vary with OS (and could be locally changed too). The process accounting programs you're going to need will also vary with OS. Mike -- Mike Causer Email - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG KeyID 1C2DDA07 WWW - http://www.mikecauser.com Flood the fen again! - Wicken Fen enlargement - http://www.wicken.org.uk ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ ht://Dig general mailing list: <[email protected]> ht://Dig FAQ: http://htdig.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html List information (subscribe/unsubscribe, etc.) https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/htdig-general
