Jens, Thanks again, that makes sense. I'll implement some workarounds in my code until we hear from Dave on the matter.
-Dave On Aug 28, 2006, at 3:20 AM, Jens Kraemer wrote: > On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 01:20:29AM -0700, David Ranney wrote: >> Jens, >> >> Thanks for your response. I see errors in either the importer (batch) >> script or in the web app. The traces I happened to post previously >> were both from the batch script. Here are the relevant lines from a >> typical error found in the rails app's error log. >> >> -Dave >> >> ActionView::TemplateError (Lock Error occured at <except.c>:79 in >> xraise >> Error occured in index.c:3089 - ir_is_latest >> Error trying to commit the index. Commit lock already >> obtained > > ok, it seems that the check to see if the current IndexReader is > based on > the latest version of the Ferret index wants to obtain a write lock > and > fails, since the batch indexing job already has locked it. > > This check is done by the Ferret::Index::Index class before every > search. Maybe Dave could shed some light on how to handle these > errors ? > Imho Ferret should retry some more times to obtain a lock before > failing > that way. > > As a short term fix, one could catch the lock error in > Ferret::Index::Index#ensure_reader_open and continue as if > index_reader.latest? > had returned true. That would prevent the search from failure due to > a locked index. > > In the opposite direction, i.e. if latest? grabbed the lock and the > indexing failed, a simple retry (calling record.save another time) > could > solve the problem, too. > > Jens > > > -- > webit! Gesellschaft für neue Medien mbH www.webit.de > Dipl.-Wirtschaftsingenieur Jens Krämer [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Schnorrstraße 76 Tel +49 351 46766 0 > D-01069 Dresden Fax +49 351 46766 66 > _______________________________________________ > Ferret-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk
