Re: [Tracker] "Could not store word" => blocking indexing

[Jamie McCracken <jamie mccrack googlemail com>]

On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 13:30 +0100, Carlos Garnacho wrote:
> On miÃ, 2009-03-25 at 12:27 +0100, laurent aguerreche free fr wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I still see tracker-indexer getting stuck with words it cannot index.
> > My computer has around 300 pdf where most of them have more than 8 pages written
> > in two columns.
> >
> > If tracker-indexer cannot index these words because it has reached limit of
> > words then it should ignore them more quickly.
>
> It actually looks more like a qdbm problem, for some reason it refuses
> to provide sensible errors, but my guess is that the file got corrupted.
> Any time I've seen this error, it failed to store any word afterwards,
> even after restarting the daemons, but I'm unable to consistently
> reproduce this.
>
> It could be more helpful to get to know what causes this to qdbm, or to
> get rid of qdbm altogether :). Are you getting this on a regular basis?
> perhaps you can help figuring out the root cause.

afaik i originally set qdbm to not use fsync for performance reasons

if you have not changed that then that is likely to be the problem as to
why it corrupts

jamie