In situations like these, I usually limit the size of the input
documents. There are various policies you can adopt. You can refuse to
handle long documents; you can cut off long documents at an arbitrary
point; or you can split long documents at more or less sensible
positions (try to find a paragraph break or at least the end of a sentence).
--Thilo
On 29.04.2017 12:53, Hugues de Mazancourt wrote:
Hello UIMA users,
I’m currently putting a Ruta-based system in production and I sometimes run out
of memory.
This is usually caused by combinatory explosion in Ruta rules. These rules are
not necessary faulty: they are adapted to the documents I expect to parse. But
as this is an open system, people can upload whatever they want and the parser
crashes by multiplying annotations (or at least takes 20 minutes in
garbage-collecting millions of annotations).
Thus, my question is: is there a way to limit the memory used by an annotator,
or to limit the number of annotations made by an annotator, or to limit the
number of matches made by Ruta ?
I prefer cancelling a parse for a given document than a 20 minutes downtime of
the whole system.
Several UIMA-based services run in production, I guess that others certainly
have hit the same problem.
Any hint on that topic would be very helpful.
Thanks,
Hugues de Mazancourt
http://about.me/mazancourt
