htdig problems?

[Christopher Faylor]

On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 06:47:41PM -0400, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
>On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> A lot of people are complaining that mailing list searches are hanging.
>
>That shouldn't be related to a running htdig process (except for
>CPU and disk contention).

I was wondering if the database was in a strange state or something.

>> I see one htdig process which has been running since 2002-06-28.
>
>That's right.  (I've kept a watch loop, killing it if it grow
>out of proportions.)  I'm considering killing it.  Well... since
>people start complaining, I'll do it right away.  What it hasn't
>finished in 3.5 days isn't waiting for.  It's probably just busy
>running constructors and destructors...

I meant to add that I saw that you were monitoring this process so
I'm not worried.  If you think it is nearly complete there is no
reason to deviate from your plan.

>> Is there a problem, maybe, or is this just recovery from the disk space
>> problem of last week?
>
>I mentioned in another message that usual indexing from scratch
>didn't work anymore because two of the gcc db files had grown
>larger than 2G.  The htdig process is just me checking if the
>newer htdig non-release was usable.  Bottom line:  htdig 3.2.0b4
>isn't usable as-is for sourceware.

Too bad.  So, what are our options?  Are there any other packages
that are similar to htdig?  Would compiling htdig to C from perl
help any?

cgf