[htdig-dev] HTDig on IA64 Linux

[David B. <D.B...@vp...>]

Hi Folks,

Wondering if any interest in my experience of running HTDig on IA64 Linux,
We have a dual Itanium II Box that I have been moving an existing web site
to. And run into some 'incidents'.

3.1.6 - It appears that there is an issue within the Berkley Database that
makes this unusable. It compiles and installs cleanly. But when I run
htdig -i I get a message about not being able to open/create the database
files. It is not an issue of diskspace or permissions. I traced it down as
far as the Berkely api db_open(). Most likely a data type size issue
relating to passed parameters, I suspect that the system is assuming 32
system because its linux. Hmm, started to lose interest.

3.2.03b - Tells me that it does not support IA64.

3.2.04 CVS snapshots - compiles and installs cleanly and indexes one of the
virtual sites in question. But fails with the other. Specificially, it
indexes for far too long (its only a 2Meg site, 10 or more minutes) and then
produces an endless list of error messages like this :

..........
Try setting  wordlist_cache_dirty_level=40  in configuration file
WordDB: CDB___memp_cmpr_alloc: unexpected error from weakcmpr base
WordDB: PANIC: Cannot allocate memory
WordDB: PANIC: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
WordDB: /opt/www/db/db.words.db: write failed for page 1668
WordDB: Unable to allocate 8271 bytes from mpool shared region: Cannot
allocate memory
..........

Seems that its recursing, or perhaps going out and following links to other
sites (it should not).

Any suggestions of what course I should take with debugging ??


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David Bannon                       D.B...@vp...
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