Re: [Tracker] Using setrlimit() is causing a lot of SIGSEGV

2009-04-03 Thread Jamie McCracken
> > > > I would rather we increase the memory usage permitted rather than > > risk flames of tracker making their system unusable. > > We already have this with the current solution. Right now people are > already saying they get too many crashes and they are disabling indexing > or removing Tr

Re: [Tracker] Using setrlimit() is causing a lot of SIGSEGV

2009-04-03 Thread Martyn Russell
Jamie McCracken wrote: On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 15:18 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote: I am not entirely sure setting a memory limit helps. Right now it masks the problem with SIGSEGV and we just get a lot of those. I would much rather someone got their data indexed and then complained about memory usa

Re: [Tracker] Using setrlimit() is causing a lot of SIGSEGV

2009-04-03 Thread Jamie McCracken
On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 15:18 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote: > Jamie McCracken wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 14:47 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote: > >> Jamie McCracken wrote: > >>> On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 12:09 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote: > Hi all, > > I have spent a lot of time this week

Re: [Tracker] Using setrlimit() is causing a lot of SIGSEGV

2009-04-03 Thread Martyn Russell
Jamie McCracken wrote: On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 14:47 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote: Jamie McCracken wrote: On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 12:09 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote: Hi all, I have spent a lot of time this week triaging bug reports in Launchpad and I noticed ubuntu patches the setrlimit() call we

Re: [Tracker] Using setrlimit() is causing a lot of SIGSEGV

2009-04-03 Thread Jamie McCracken
On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 14:47 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote: > Jamie McCracken wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 12:09 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I have spent a lot of time this week triaging bug reports in Launchpad > >> and I noticed ubuntu patches the setrlimit() call we use

Re: [Tracker] Using setrlimit() is causing a lot of SIGSEGV

2009-04-03 Thread Martyn Russell
Jamie McCracken wrote: On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 12:09 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote: Hi all, I have spent a lot of time this week triaging bug reports in Launchpad and I noticed ubuntu patches the setrlimit() call we use. I haven't seen exactly how, but we did some light testing here by not using

Re: [Tracker] Using setrlimit() is causing a lot of SIGSEGV

2009-04-03 Thread Philip Van Hoof
On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 09:02 -0400, Jamie McCracken wrote: > Also memory usage can rocket especially with video files > > It might be a case we extend the time permitted for the extractor to > finish so that slower machines are not penalised but I would object to > removing this safety net I expe

Re: [Tracker] Using setrlimit() is causing a lot of SIGSEGV

2009-04-03 Thread Jamie McCracken
On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 12:09 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote: > Hi all, > > I have spent a lot of time this week triaging bug reports in Launchpad > and I noticed ubuntu patches the setrlimit() call we use. I haven't seen > exactly how, but we did some light testing here by not using it at all, > an