Re: crash on repeated search

On 07.12.2006, at 10:38, Caleb Clausen wrote:

> I have found another crash in ferret; this one just uses a regular
> search. It's similar to an issue reported by Matt Schnitz a while ago,
> but unlike his, mine does not go away if I turn off omit_norms. It  
> does
> go away if I turn on the garbage collector more often, but I'm not  
> sure
> that's a stable workaround under the circumstances.
>
> This one isn't a segfault, but more complicated versions have been.  
> This
> bug manifests as a error in the garbage collector:
>
> $ ruby rw_ferret_test.rb
> .......rw_ferret_test.rb:20: [BUG] rb_gc_mark(): unknown data type
> 0x28(0x402ba3a4) non object
> ruby 1.8.2 (2005-04-11) [i386-linux]
>
> Aborted

I tried your code and I get lots of dots but no error ;)

Maybe you should use a newer Ruby version. I'm using

ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [powerpc-darwin8.8.0]

Cheers,
Andy