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Large PDF's can fail to index with the error message.
[PDF plugin error] Plugin exceeded execution timeout. PDF file may be corrupted or invalid.
This appears to be a bug in the indexer. In some cases corrupted PDF files can cause the PDF to text conversion process to lockup, so we implemented a watchdog timer. If the conversion process doesn’t complete within 10 seconds we terminate the conversion of that document (on the assumption that it will never finished), and move on to the next document.
Bad assumption.
It turns out that some large PDF's take a long time to convert, even when not corrupted.
So on a very fast machine it would probably work OK. But it can fail on slow machines with large documents.
We need to extend the time out period to at least 30 sec I think.
We are planning significant patch release around the middle of Jan 09. And so will include this change in that release.
Large PDF's can fail to index with the error message.
[PDF plugin error] Plugin exceeded execution timeout. PDF file may be corrupted or invalid.
This appears to be a bug in the indexer. In some cases corrupted PDF files can cause the PDF to text conversion process to lockup, so we implemented a watchdog timer. If the conversion process doesn’t complete within 10 seconds we terminate the conversion of that document (on the assumption that it will never finished), and move on to the next document.
Bad assumption.
It turns out that some large PDF's take a long time to convert, even when not corrupted.
So on a very fast machine it would probably work OK. But it can fail on slow machines with large documents.
We need to extend the time out period to at least 30 sec I think.
We are planning significant patch release around the middle of Jan 09. And so will include this change in that release.