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Tyler Palsulich commented on TIKA-591:
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Is there still interest in this, or is it superseded by tika-batch?
> Separate launcer process for forking JVMs
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> Key: TIKA-591
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-591
> Project: Tika
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: parser
> Reporter: Jukka Zitting
> Assignee: Jukka Zitting
> Priority: Minor
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> As a followup to TIKA-416, it would be good to implement at least optional
> support for a separate launcher process for the ForkParser feature. The need
> for such an extra process came up in JCR-2864 where a reference to
> http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/subprocess/subprocess.html was
> made.
> To summarize, the problem is that the ProcessBuilder.start() call can result
> in a temporary duplication of the memory space of the parent JVM. Even with
> copy-on-write semantics this can be a fairly expensive operation and prone to
> out-of-memory issues especially in large-scale deployments where the parent
> JVM already uses the majority of the available RAM on a computer.
> A similar problem is also being discussed at HADOOP-5059.
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