Re: [Tracker] Use of fork() in tracker-extract-pdf

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 14/08/13 15:36, Ralph Böhme wrote:
> Am 14.08.2013 um 14:33 schrieb Ralph Böhme <rb netafp com>:
> > Looks like we're using malloc() in a signal handler. That must be
> > l.469 in tracker-extract-pdf.c:
> >
> > g_debug ("Parent:   Zombie %d reaped", child_pid); ... I'll run
> > another test with the log statements removed and report back.
>
> success, that fixes the issue.
>
> <https://github.com/slowfranklin/tracker/commit/88ae53a78b48e39f4fe39b03217d629733d746c0>
>
>  The change to increase the watchdog timeout in tracker-extract from
> 10 to (afair) 120 seconds was in place too though, but from looking
> at the tracker logs the whole process of indexing ~1100 files, a
> subset of that are the large PDFs I mentioned, only took 58 seconds
> so I assume fixing the signal handler is all that's needed for now.

Seriously? Removing the debug statement is fixing the issue for you?

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