According to Nico De Ranter:
> I'm currently evaluating Htdig for our intranet. When a do a
> lookup for "test" which is a very frequently used worde, I hear the
> harddisk making a lot of noice for a few minutes after which the webbrowser
> returns an "Internal Server Error". If I run htsearch by hand with the same
> keyword all I get is "Alarm clock". Any idea what this means. Is it only
> because the machine is to slow and the query takes to much time to complete
> (the server is a rather small pc, will move to a much bigger system for the
> production system). Or might there be something else going wrong?
htsearch sets itself to timeout after 5 minutes of operation, using the
alarm() system call. If it's not done by then, the system kills it with
a SIGALRM signal, leading to the error you've noted above. This is done
to keep htsearch from chugging away for far too long and overloading you
web server. The delay is hard-coded.
A faster PC would make a difference, but whether it's enough of a
difference to always avoid a timeout depends on the size of your database
and the frequency of the word you're searching.
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> "It has been said that there are only two businesses that
> refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and
> the computer industry."
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It's OK, the first answer on this list is always free. ;-)
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