bug reporting for FITS

[Bjarne Andersen]

Hi List.
I have started to test FITS in the SCAPE project. Especially on web
archive content.
And I have run in to some problems with some HTML-files that make FITS
hang forever with a quite high CPU-load. It just hangs until I kill
it.
I have to run FITS on millions of files in batches of the entire
content of one ARC-file at a time (typically around 4000 objects) and
I have had to set up a cron job that automatically kills any FITS-
process that has not generated new output for 1 hour.
So far I have analyzed around 15 million objects (quite a lot - but
far from the 7 billion objects currently in Netarchive.dk) and my auto-
killing script killed around 15 processes in total so far.

The problem is 100 % reproducable and I have an example object that
makes FITS fail. Can I report a bug somewhere and attach the sample
object ?

best
Bjarne Andersen
State and University Library, Aarhus
Denmark

[McEwen, Spencer]

Yes, please report it here: http://code.google.com/p/fits/issues/list

If you attach the file I'll do some debugging and figure out which tool in
FITS is causing the problem.

Thanks,
Spencer McEwen

[Bjarne Andersen]

Found it right there on the project home page :)
I have now submitted a bug report

best
Bjarne Andersen