[Dxspider-support] negative strlen

[Dirk Koopman]

> thanks to charlie, k1xx for the tip on /spider/data/dupefile.  after
> removing the dupfile, spider ran for two days and then blew up.  i am
> running ver 1.51 build 57.263 and i still get the following error:
> panic: sv_setpvn called with negative strlen at /spider/perl/DXDupe.pm
> line 77.
>         DXDupe::process() called at /spider/perl/cluster.pl line 560
>
> any ideas why the dupfile has these issues?

I have never seen it here. Could this actually be dodgy RAM? Have you
tried the linux RAM test recently (i.e. Compile the linux kernel)?

I don't know of anybody else with this problem.

Dirk G1TLH