Re: [Tracker] Trackerd getting stuck in an infinite flush loop

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Quirky wrote:
> Today the trackerd process got stuck in a loop where it started to
> consume lots of CPU. The log file showed this:
>
> 22 Oct 2006, 17:15:18:976 - flushing data (8 words left) - please wait
> 22 Oct 2006, 17:15:18:979 - flushing data (8 words left) - please wait
> 22 Oct 2006, 17:15:18:983 - flushing data (8 words left) - please wait
> ...... repeats the same message for 5 minutes+...
>
> I attached gdb and it seemed stuck around the calls to
> tracker_db_flush_words_to_qdbm, always returning the same value but
> never actually flushing anything. Attached is the debug session. As far
> as I can tell, GetWordsTop was returning 224 and "folder", but then
> GetServiceWordCount for 224 was returning 0, so the word "folder" wasn't
> flushed (?).

yes this is a bug - just had a quick look and we are not deleting the 
word if count is 0 so it just goes round and round. Still easy to fix!

as this is a critical bug I have applied the fix to CVS and will include 
in my debs and rpms for the 0.5.0 release that I am about to post shortly.

Thanks for the info.



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