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- <p>Day 00321: Friday, 2016 January 22</p>
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- I tracked down the issue with the spider.
- The <a href="https://secure.php.net/manual/en/function.xml-parse-into-struct.php"><code>\xml_parse_into_struct()</code> function</a> is supposed to return 0 on failure and 1 on success, but instead, the script simply terminates upon calling that function.
- Someone on <abbr title="Internet Relay Chat">IRC</abbr> explained that the likely cause was oom-killer, some sort of daemon that kills processes that take too much memory.
- They also explained that when parsing data, three to five times the file's size is needed in <abbr title="random-access memory">RAM</abbr>.
- However, while this explanation seems exceedingly likely, I cannot find any trace of this happening in the logs.
- Additionally, when I set the file download size limit to four megabytes, the spider still ended up dead.
- Because Web servers can lie about file content types, I want to solve this issue without relying on <code>Content-Type</code> headers, though after I have done so, I want to additionally start taking <code>Content-Type</code> headers into account.
- I think that by modifying my <code>curl_limit</code> class, I can check the <code>Content-Type</code> header before the download has finished.
- I think that I want to make the class a bit more complex, both giving it the option to abort a download based on the <code>Content-Type</code> header and giving it a way to communicate error messages (such as the fact that it had to abort a download and why) to other parts of a script that uses it.
- The name <code>curl_limit</code> will either need to be changed or it will become a artifact title.
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- I spent most of the day sorting <abbr title="Video Home System">VHS</abbr> cassettes at the local library in an effort to help Cyrus with his Boy Scout project.
- We took any cassette off the shelf if it had not been checked out in over a year so that they can be removed from the inventory and sold.
- It was mostly uneventful, though the librarian was very happy with our work.
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