baloo + out-of-memory in file extractor

[Boudhayan Gupta]

Hi,

On 10 Sep 2016 19:42, "Christoph Cullmann" <cullmann at absint.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> during the last night of the akademy for me in Berlin, baloo file
extractor OOM'd my notebook
> during extracting the tag info of the taglib unit test test-files.

Is it possible to reproduce the issue and get a stack trace?

If you can consistently repro this, running under valgrind to check for
leaks will also go a long way.

>
> Would it be a good idea to restrict the file extractor process to some
fixed amount of memory
> to use via setrlimit? (or more fancy stuff?)

That would probably just make Baloo crash, so fixing the bug is probably
the better option.

>
> Greetings
> Christoph

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