Package: xapian-omega Version: 1.0.7-3+lenny1 Severity: important omindex fails to index very large document trees due to incorrectly assuming a filter in not installed half-way through execution.
We're experiencing this when trying to index 2GBs of PDFs, WPDs and DOCs on a system with 2GB of physical RAM. This is caused by a ill-conceived idea that setting a memory limit on the subprocess of 7/8s of "free physical ram" is a good idea in runfilter.cc - this ultimately results in the filters failing to even start once the limit becomes too small. As linux aggressively buffers disk pages, using free physical ram as an indication of available memory results in the system prematurely assuming it's out of RAM. Proposed solution is to remove the memory limit completely, or make it a fixed (configurable) limit. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages xapian-omega depends on: ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1.1 GCC support library ii libstdc++6 4.3.2-1.1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libxapian15 1.0.7-4 Search engine library Versions of packages xapian-omega recommends: ii apache2 2.2.9-10+lenny6 Apache HTTP Server metapackage ii apache2-mpm-worker [http 2.2.9-10+lenny6 Apache HTTP Server - high speed th Versions of packages xapian-omega suggests: ii antiword 0.37-3 Converts MS Word files to text and ii catdoc 0.94.2-1 MS-Word to TeX or plain text conve pn catdvi <none> (no description available) pn djvulibre-bin <none> (no description available) ii gs-common 8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny1 Dummy package depending on ghostsc ii libwpd-tools 0.8.14-1 Tools from libwpd for converting W pn libwps-tools <none> (no description available) ii poppler-utils [xpd 0.8.7-3 PDF utilitites (based on libpopple pn unrtf <none> (no description available) pn unzip <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
