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

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

Jamie McCracken wrote:
> > > 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 

Of course - that's why it is designed this way ;)

But you don't catch these serious memory issues by just crashing with 
another error which hides the real problem. Consider memory profiling, 
how would you do that?

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Regards,
Martyn