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

[Jamie McCracken <jamie mccrack googlemail com>]

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