High CPU Usage - PDFtoText

Issue #503 resolved
Jim Keating created an issue

Hi Janos,
Our Piler Server started a high CPU utilization cycle where it stays at about 100% for the last 24 hours and continuing on. (The Piler email queue on our Exchange Server is backing up but still processing messages very slowly.) When checking the CPU using "root@piler:~# ps aux | grep piler" we see two process for pdftotext that are very high. I've attached a text file showing the results.
Thanks in advance for your help with this issue. JK

Comments (7)

  1. Janos SUTO repo owner

    Show me piler -v output, please. The problem is that pdftotext is stuck, and so is the calling process. ie. piler. Recent versions of piler features the timeout binary to make sure no helper process is run for a long time.

  2. Jim Keating reporter

    Here it is Janos: piler 0.1.24-master-branch, build 836, Janos SUTO sj@acts.hu

    Build Date: Sun Sep 1 21:35:24 CEST 2013 ldd version: ldd (Debian EGLIBC 2.13-38) 2.13 gcc version: gcc version 4.7.2 (Debian 4.7.2-5) Configure command: ./configure --localstatedir=/var --enable-starttls --enable-tcpwrappers --with-database=mysql

    Thanks!

  3. Janos SUTO repo owner

    OK, then it's worth to upgrade to the master branch, and it's likely to solve the issue. Let me know how it goes.

  4. Jim Keating reporter

    Janos, Do you have an upgrade instructions guide that explains the process? Thanks again! Jim

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