Question

I have a TWiki running under windows 2003 using NatSkin and everything is honkydory, except when searching a number of topics Perl bombs and I have to abort it on the server, this produces an incomplete list of topic files and an error. It looks like windows has a limited command line length. Any ideas?

See error.log in attachments.

• error.log: An entry in an Apache error.log

Environment

-- BreckAuten - 13 Dec 2006

Answer

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Try this: In method searchInWebContent of lib/TWiki/Store/RcsFile.pm, line 346, reduce $maxTopicsInSet from 512 to 128.

-- PeterThoeny - 13 Dec 2006

Thanks, that shud work as long as I don't go directory depth crazy. I will let you know. TWiki has really grown on me! Good Job! I am still new, I hope I can add to the cause in the future. Later.

-- BreckAuten - 23 Dec 2006

I filed an enhancement request, Bugs:Item3349, to make this configurable.

-- PeterThoeny - 24 Dec 2006

Cool

-- BreckAuten - 24 Dec 2006

I re-read my 23 Dec 2006 post, and got chuckle, I don't know how Peter took it, but what I meant, was TWiki and me have a future and thankyou all for doing a GoodJob on a very cool framework, called TWiki.

-- BreckAuten - 25 Dec 2006

Put in change but I made it 20. When I am searching my TWiki web, grep still zombies and but my other webs seem ok. So here is an error.log entry after I kill the zombie perl.

c:/gnuwin32/bin/grep "-i" "-l" "-H" "-E" "--" "Back to TWikiFAQ" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/ATasteOfTWiki.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/ATasteOfTWikiTemplate.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/AccessKeys.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/AdminDocumentationCategory.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/AdminSkillsAssumptions.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/AdminToolsCategory.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/AnApplicationWithWikiForm.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/AppendixEncodeURLsWithUTF8.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/BehaviourContrib.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/BookView.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/BreadCrumbsPlugin.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/BulkRegistration.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/BulkResetPassword.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/BumpyWord.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/CategoryCategory.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/ChangeEmailAddress.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/ChangePassword.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/ClassMethod.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/ClassicSkin.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/ClassicSkinLogin.txt" failed: c:/gnuwin32/bin/grep "-i" "-l" "-H" "-E" "--" "Back to TWikiFAQ" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/CommentPlugin.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/CommentPluginTemplate.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/DeleteOrRenameATopic.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/DeleteOrRenameAnAttachment.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/DeveloperDocumentationCategory.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/DontNotify.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/DragonSkin.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/DragonSkinCustomize.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/DragonSkinInstall.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/DragonSkinSiteMap.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/EditDoesNotIncreaseTheRevision.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/EditTablePlugin.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/EmptyPlugin.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/ExampleTopicTemplate.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/FileAttachment.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/FileAttribute.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/FilterPlugin.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/FlexWebListExamples.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/FlexWebListPlugin.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/ForceNewRevision.txt" failed: c:/gnuwin32/bin/grep "-i" "-l" "-H" "-E" "--" "Back to TWikiFAQ" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/FormattedSearch.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/GluePlugin.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/GnuGeneralPublicLicense.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/GoBox.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/GoodStyle.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/HiddenAttachment.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/IfDefinedPlugin.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/IfStatements.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/IncludeTopicsAndWebPages.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/InstalledPlugins.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/InstantEnhancements.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/InterWikis.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/InterwikiPlugin.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/JSCalendarContrib.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/LanguageSelector.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/LoginName.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/MailerContrib.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/MainFeatures.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/MainTWikiWebLinksForAdmins.txt" "d:/apache/twiki/data/TWiki/ManagingTopics.txt" failed: 

-- BreckAuten - 25 Dec 2006

P.S. What does "--" do for grep in this case, read STDIN, maybe that is doing it. I dont bloody know.

I am ready to kill grep, my grep bad. ):

-- BreckAuten - 25 Dec 2006

I just remembered I had a problem with Perl on window a few years back and I think my script was using system() to run some executable N times within the script, I think it zombied on N-i iteration.

Maybe this is same, I see if I can track that down.

Geez Louis.

-- BreckAuten - 25 Dec 2006