[CONNECTORS-1560] Improve tika-server robustness via -spawnChild

• Type: Wish
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Tim Allison
• Created: 30/Nov/18 20:27
• Updated: 30/Nov/18 22:45
• Resolved: 30/Nov/18 22:04

Description

I'd encourage you to consider adopting the new -spawnChild mode in tika-server. See the documentation here: https://wiki.apache.org/tika/TikaJAXRS#Making%20Tika%20Server%20Robust%20to%20OOMs,%20Infinite%20Loops%20and%20Memory%20Leaks

The small downside is that the server can go down for a few seconds during the restart. Clients have to be prepared for an IOException on files that are being parsed when the child server goes down and/or if the child is being restarted. The upside is that your users will be protected against infinite loops, OOM and memory leaks...things that we used to just hope never happened...but they do, and they will.

Issue Links

• relates to: TIKA-2776 Tika server child restart