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

[Jamie McCracken <jamie mccrack googlemail com>]

> > 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 Tracker because we are over protective.
>
> If we are really sucking up all memory and making the machine unusable 
> we really need to fix it, not put a measure in place expecting it.


not really - ubuntu put an exception so that crashes in tracker-extract
are no longer reported a while back

its designed to crash to protect the system from undesirable resource
usage. Its generally not possible to fix it as the extractors will
always be open to third parties to produce their own thus its prudent to
have a safety net in place 

jamie