Excerpts from William Morgan's message of Sun Oct 11 16:28:48 -0400 2009: > I'm sorry you've had to rebuild the index so many times. The Xapian side > of things is very new, and I think you've had a run of bad luck. But I > am personally not motivated to improve index time performance, because > that's not a common event. At least, it shouldn't be.
Unfortunately, it seems that the crashes have returned (In fact, they returned only hours after I rebuilt). Interestingly, it is once again my LKML label that is the culprit. On the note of crashing, is it really necessary for the "wrong id called on nil" exception to be fatal? Couldn't the client at least make some attempt at recovering (skipping the problematic thread while catching and logging the exception)? It seems like these issues could be rather tricky to sort out (I've put an hour or so into tracking down the source of the nils to no avail), and with a dynamically typed language like Ruby, could occur at any time. Considering this, it seems like it might be a good idea to handle these failures a bit more gracefully. Would this be problematic? Regardless, it might be a good idea to have a hierarchy of exception classes instead of just throwing Strings. It seems that throwing specialized classes would make the above substantially easier. Thanks, - Ben --- RuntimeError from thread: load threads for thread-index-mode wrong id called on nil /opt/exp/sup/lib/sup.rb:17:in `id' /opt/exp/sup/lib/sup/modes/thread-index-mode.rb:225:in `update' /usr/lib64/ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `sort_by' /opt/exp/sup/lib/sup/modes/thread-index-mode.rb:225:in `each' /opt/exp/sup/lib/sup/modes/thread-index-mode.rb:225:in `sort_by' /opt/exp/sup/lib/sup/modes/thread-index-mode.rb:225:in `update' /opt/exp/sup/lib/sup/modes/thread-index-mode.rb:223:in `synchronize' /opt/exp/sup/lib/sup/modes/thread-index-mode.rb:223:in `update' /opt/exp/sup/lib/sup/modes/thread-index-mode.rb:628:in `__unprotected_load_n_threads' /opt/exp/sup/lib/sup/thread.rb:334:in `load_n_threads' /opt/exp/sup/lib/sup/xapian_index.rb:117:in `each_id_by_date' /opt/exp/sup/lib/sup/xapian_index.rb:110:in `each_id' /opt/exp/sup/lib/sup/xapian_index.rb:110:in `each' /opt/exp/sup/lib/sup/xapian_index.rb:110:in `each_id' /opt/exp/sup/lib/sup/xapian_index.rb:117:in `each_id_by_date' /opt/exp/sup/lib/sup/thread.rb:328:in `load_n_threads' /opt/exp/sup/lib/sup/modes/thread-index-mode.rb:625:in `__unprotected_load_n_threads' (eval):12:in `load_n_threads' /opt/exp/sup/lib/sup/modes/thread-index-mode.rb:609:in `load_n_threads_background' /opt/exp/sup/lib/sup.rb:77:in `reporting_thread' /opt/exp/sup/lib/sup.rb:75:in `initialize' /opt/exp/sup/lib/sup.rb:75:in `new' /opt/exp/sup/lib/sup.rb:75:in `reporting_thread' /opt/exp/sup/lib/sup/modes/thread-index-mode.rb:608:in `load_n_threads_background' /opt/exp/sup/lib/sup/modes/thread-index-mode.rb:679:in `__unprotected_load_threads' (eval):12:in `load_threads' /opt/exp/sup/lib/sup/modes/thread-index-mode.rb:81:in `initialize' /opt/exp/sup/lib/sup/modes/line-cursor-mode.rb:22:in `call' /opt/exp/sup/lib/sup/modes/line-cursor-mode.rb:22:in `initialize' /opt/exp/sup/lib/sup/modes/line-cursor-mode.rb:22:in `each' /opt/exp/sup/lib/sup/modes/line-cursor-mode.rb:22:in `initialize' /opt/exp/sup/lib/sup/modes/line-cursor-mode.rb:19:in `new' /opt/exp/sup/lib/sup/modes/line-cursor-mode.rb:19:in `initialize' /opt/exp/sup/lib/sup/modes/thread-index-mode.rb:54:in `initialize' /opt/exp/sup/lib/sup/modes/label-search-results-mode.rb:9:in `initialize' /opt/exp/sup/lib/sup/modes/label-search-results-mode.rb:32:in `new' /opt/exp/sup/lib/sup/modes/label-search-results-mode.rb:32:in `spawn_nicely' /opt/exp/sup/lib/sup/buffer.rb:350:in `spawn_unless_exists' /opt/exp/sup/lib/sup/util.rb:520:in `send' /opt/exp/sup/lib/sup/util.rb:520:in `method_missing' /opt/exp/sup/lib/sup/modes/label-search-results-mode.rb:32:in `spawn_nicely' /opt/exp/sup/lib/sup/modes/label-list-mode.rb:134:in `select_label' /opt/exp/sup/lib/sup/mode.rb:51:in `send' /opt/exp/sup/lib/sup/mode.rb:51:in `handle_input' /opt/exp/sup/lib/sup/buffer.rb:267:in `handle_input' /usr/bin/sup:245 _______________________________________________ sup-talk mailing list sup-talk@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/sup-talk
