Re: mhonarc 2.5.0 infinite loop on index creation?

[Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>]

Hi,

On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 04:48:33PM -0800, Earl Hood wrote:
>On November 12, 2001 at 13:12, Jason Molenda wrote:
>> I upgraded sources.redhat.com/gcc.gnu.org to mhonarc 2.5.0 on
>> Sunday.  I host around 150 mailing lists on this site.  It looked
>> like everything was OK for a short while, but it's gone haywire
>> today.  Every time a note is added to a mailing list, mhonarc
>> generates all the index files, and then regenerates them ad naseum.
>> I'm looking at a mhonarc that's running in the gcc-patches November
>> directory with 700 messages, and it's been generating indexes
>> continuously for the last half an hour.
>
>Do you have a reproducable test case?  What do you exactly mean
>by "generating indexes continuously for the last half an hour?"
>By chance, are you using the OTHERINDEXES resource?

I'm helping out Jason with this.  I'm a complete novice to mhonarc, but 
I think that the answer to your question is "yes".

The mhonarc invocation looks like this:

cat $TMPFILE |
$MHONARC -rcfile $MRCFILE \
         -otherindexes $DATEMRC -quiet -add -outdir $ARCHDIR \
         -definevar "TIME-PERIOD='${DATE_ENGLISH}' ML-BASE-URL='${BASE_URL}' \
                     DATE-DIRNAME='${DATESPEC}' SHORT-PROJECT-NAME='$1' \
                     RAW-MSG-NUM='${c}'"

MRCFILE is one of two things: date-highvolume.mrc or date-lowvolume.mrc .

According to Jason, it sounds like date-highvolume.mrc might be the problematic
one.  You can look at it here:

http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/infra/ml-archiving/date-highvolume.mrc?rev=1.24&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup

I can provide more details if you want but I'll probably just be
a typing monkey for a while until I get up to speed on this.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

cgf