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, > and the files which were causing tracker-extract to crash before, now > are not. The files are, however, being extracted perfectly. > > I would suggest we remove ALL calls to setrlimit in > trackerd/tracker-indexer/tracker-extract. Certainly the extractor. > > Does anyone object to this? >
yes from experience corrupted files can turn the extract process into a zombie 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 jamie _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list tracker-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
