I am facing a weird problem with nightly_htdig. It's been refusing to
complete of late. I would find the process still running even in the
morning.
Using top
, I see it's the topmost process. I then decide to kill it, and
it dumps core, which I believe is okay, but what would cause this
behaviour, especially started after I upgraded to 2.1.24
I have rebuilt the archives, but that hasn't changed things.
Maybe it's something not related to mailman....
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On 7/29/17 2:28 AM, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
I am facing a weird problem with nightly_htdig. It's been refusing to complete of late. I would find the process still running even in the morning. Using
top
, I see it's the topmost process. I then decide to kill it, and it dumps core, which I believe is okay, but what would cause this behaviour, especially started after I upgraded to 2.1.24I have rebuilt the archives, but that hasn't changed things.
Maybe it's something not related to mailman....
The htdig search engine http://www.htdig.org/ is not part of Mailman per se. It has not been supported for a long time. Richard Barrett developed patches to integrate htdig search with Mailman 2.1 archives. I have since incorporated those patches into a branch at https://code.launchpad.net/~msapiro/mailman/htdig which is kept in sync with the Mailman 2.1 master branch at https://code.launchpad.net/~mailman-coders/mailman/2.1.
You may be able to use tools like gdb to find out more about the running process before you kill it or to inspect the core dump.
You can also look at the Note: on each list's archive index page to see when the archive search index was last rebuilt. This will help you find on which list the process is "stuck".
Other questions I would have are: How did you install Mailman? How did you install htdig, and which version? How did you upgrade Mailman to 2.1.24? What steps did you follow to rebuild the archives?
All I can tell you is I run what is for this purpose essentially the head of the https://code.launchpad.net/~msapiro/mailman/htdig branch and htdig 3.2.0b6 installed from source, and I don't see this issue.
I do know that depending on the actual server resources available, rebuilding the index for a large archive (tens of thousands or more posts) can take a long time.
-- Mark Sapiro mark@msapiro.net The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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