[Ferret-talk] Segmentation Faults

Tom Davies
Fri, 24 Nov 2006 13:21:59 -0000

Hi Jens,

When I tried switching to 0.10.13 I did have to rewrite portions to
work with the new API and I had it working using a small number of
documents.  It was only when I tried to do the entire import of my
existing records that it would routinely seg fault.

Also, one other odd thing I noticed is on both 0.9.4 and 0.10.13 I
will always get a segfault if I try to rebuild the index using the
script/runner.

Due to the lack of being able to handle seg faults from the Rails code
I may have no choice but to switch to mysql full text for the time
being just for stability.  Otherwise, all it takes is a seg fault to
bring my whole application down.  And in this case, since it corrupted
the index my app will permanently seg fault until I rebuild it.

Thanks for your help.

Tom Davies