Not finding any mention of limits - although, 2mb of data is a *lot*.
Just to test it's not a bug... can you try the following?

@documents.excerpt_for(d.content[0..1000])

Cheers

--  
Pat

On 31/07/2009, at 2:56 PM, Pat Allan wrote:

>
> Hmm, could very well be there's a character limit for excerpts. I'll
> look into it.
>
> If there is, what would you expect Thinking Sphinx do by default in
> such a scenario?
>
> --  
> Pat
>
> On 31/07/2009, at 2:01 AM, Maxus wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Pat,
>>
>> Thanks for responding to my message,
>>
>> The line in the view is this:
>>
>> <% @documents.each do |d| %>
>>   <%= d.id %> | <a href="<%= d.filepath %>" target="_blank"><%=
>> d.filename %></a> | <%= d.filesize %> | <%= d.created_at %><br/>
>>   <em><%= d.excerpts.content %></em><br/><br/>
>> <% end %>
>>
>> This is the pdf indexer I spoke to the group about a while ago, I'm
>> trying storing the extracted text inside the DB.
>>
>> My guess is 10 items with 2mb of text each is what is causing the
>> excerpts to fall over, my assumption is excerpts simply scan the text
>> in the entity and pick out a section? perhaps the amount of text is
>> simply too much or does searchd provide the excerpts?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Maxus
>>
>> On Jul 30, 9:06 pm, Pat Allan <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hi Maxus
>>>
>>> What's the line in your view that's causing the error?
>>>
>>> --   
>>> Pat
>>>
>>> On 29/07/2009, at 1:29 PM, Maxus wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi People,
>>>
>>>> I have a wierd one, I'm trying to use excerpts, but I seem to be
>>>> recieving random sphinx errors like so:
>>>
>>>> No response from searchd (status: , version: )
>>>
>>>> On the server side I see:
>>>
>>>> Processing DocumentsController#index (for 192.168.2.3 at 2009-07-29
>>>> 20:25:25) [GET]
>>>> Parameters: {"commit"=>"Search", "page"=>"2", "search"=>"house"}
>>>> Rendering documents/index
>>>> Querying Sphinx: house
>>>> Document Load (373.5ms)   SELECT * FROM `documents` WHERE
>>>> (`documents`.`id` IN
>>>> (32,33,34,36,40,43,44,45,46,48,49,50,53,54,55,59,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69
>>>> ))
>>>
>>>> ActionView::TemplateError (No response from searchd (status: ,
>>>> version: )) on line #17 of app/views/documents/index.html.erb:
>>>
>>>> If I keep refreshing the page it will randomly work, my guess is
>>>> some
>>>> sort of time out perhaps?
>>>
>>>> Any ideas what I need to do to fix this, or any info I can provide
>>>> to
>>>> help point me in the direction of a fix?
>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>> Maxus- Hide quoted text -
>>>
>>> - Show quoted text -
>>>
>
>
> >


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