On my system the command godoc -v -index -index_files=/var/tmp/godoc_index.db -write_index
runs for quite a while, then finishes with a warning message about the gob encoder: 2018/05/16 14:54:23 initialize file systems 2018/05/16 14:54:23 updating index... 2018/05/16 15:11:46 index updated (1042.388139246s, 519738767 bytes of source, 38378 files, 15129025 lines, 343889 unique words, 20260689 spots) 2018/05/16 15:11:46 before GC: bytes = 11159155064 footprint = 13770511160 2018/05/16 15:11:47 after GC: bytes = 6213594416 footprint = 13770511160 2018/05/16 15:11:47 writing index file /var/tmp/godoc_index.db 2018/05/16 15:11:57 gob: encoder: message too big It _does_ write /var/tmp/godoc_index.db but apparently it's pretty much empty (1.1kB in size). I can't find anything in the Github issues on this. Is it a known problem and I'm stupid? Should I file a bug? (I want to run godoc as a local service and avoid having the indexer run from scratch on every boot) Best Regards, Carsten carsten@xaos ~ $ go env GOARCH="amd64" GOBIN="" GOCACHE="/home/carsten/.cache/go-build" GOEXE="" GOHOSTARCH="amd64" GOHOSTOS="linux" GOOS="linux" GOPATH="/home/carsten/go" GORACE="" GOROOT="/usr/local/go" GOTMPDIR="" GOTOOLDIR="/usr/local/go/pkg/tool/linux_amd64" GCCGO="gccgo" CC="gcc" CXX="g++" CGO_ENABLED="1" CGO_CFLAGS="-g -O2" CGO_CPPFLAGS="" CGO_CXXFLAGS="-g -O2" CGO_FFLAGS="-g -O2" CGO_LDFLAGS="-g -O2" PKG_CONFIG="pkg-config" GOGCCFLAGS="-fPIC -m64 -pthread -fmessage-length=0 -fdebug-prefix-map=/tmp/go-build043246410=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches" -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.