Introducing a timer (in this case 5 seconds) to ensure that the
execution time of the tokenizer takes less than 5 seconds. This
is a simple and standard POSIX signal handler.
This approach fixes the specific issues we have currently
with some inputs where the tokenization takes too much time. This
fix should be improved and be more generic:
- Introducing statistics of content which timeouts.
- Keeping a list/queue to further process those files using a different
tokenizer approach. Maybe a set of "dirty" processes to handle the edge cases
and to not impact the overall processing and analysis.
- Make the timer configurable per module (at least for this one).
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Alexandre Dulaunoy