Zed,
Thank you very much for the reply. The solution, as you will see, is
very humbling for me. I installed strace and it looks like the
problem is that there is a recursive permission denied error in an
infinite loop that is hanging Mongrel:
open("/var/www/apps/search/current/config/../indexes/final/
segments_5", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
My fix is obviously to change the ownership of my index files from
root to the correct user.
The infinite loop seems like a Ferret issue. Do you agree?
Thanks again Zed.
Erik
On Apr 15, 2007, at 7:06 PM, Zed A. Shaw wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 16:04:06 -0400
> Erik Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I'm having a strange problem accessing a 1.7GB Ferret index from
>> within Mongrel (1.0.1) on Linux. On OSX a Ferret search through Rails
>> takes a fraction of a second. From the command line, bypassing
>> Mongrel, the search takes about the same amount of time. On Fedora
>> Core 4 a Ferret search from the command line takes a fraction of a
>> second, but the same search through Mongrel never returns. The
>> mongrel just spins and using 50% or so of the CPU.
>>
>> Has anyone seen anything like this? Is there some kind of limit on
>> the size of a file that Mongrel allows Rails to access in Linux? Help
>> is greatly appreciated. I had no problem on Linux searching a Ferret
>> index of about 1.5GB.
>
> No, mongrel doesn't set any limits, and I don't think it could set
> those kinds of OS limits without more extensive Ruby support. It's
> also odd that you have no problems on OSX but do have them on Linux.
> When it comes to file IO problems it's usually the other way around.
>
> There's a couple things you can do to get to the bottom of this.
> Since
> you have a reproducible test scenario, you can simply try your query,
> make the CPU go 50% and then attach to it with:
>
> strace -p PID
>
> This will print out the system calls being done by that ruby process
> and should give you and the ferret author or myself an idea of what to
> do next.
>
> You may also have to delve into using gdb, but that's kind of complex.
> Hit me up if strace doesn't help as there's a way to attach to a ruby
> process via gdb and then force it to throw a ruby exception. At a
> minimum you could attach and do the command backtrace to see where in
> the C callstack it's stuck.
>
> --
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