Hi Jonathan While I know plenty about Riddle, and a decent amount about Sphinx, working with sockets is not something I know a notable amount about, so your guess is as good as mine when it comes to that. It'd be great to see your patch if you have some time - and bonus points if it has tests :)
Cheers -- Pat On 09/12/2011, at 10:03 PM, Jonathan del Strother wrote: > Heya, > I ran into some problems yesterday where searchd froze up, leading to all my > rails instances getting permanently stuck waiting on a response from Thinking > Sphinx. > > It would be nice if it were possible to specify a sphinx timeout for this > sort of problem. I had a quick hack around with the riddle source, adding > timeout blocks around the TCPSocket initialization, and using recv_nonblock > instead of recv, which seemed to work ok & suggested it might actually be > possible. However, I'd be the first to admit I probably don't know enough > about sphinx, riddle, or even socket programming to say for sure that it's > the right approach. Has this sort of thing already been discussed? I could > probably neaten things up and publish a branch if there's any interest in it. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Thinking Sphinx" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/thinking-sphinx/-/9Ho8lZU7AjYJ. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/thinking-sphinx?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thinking Sphinx" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/thinking-sphinx?hl=en.
