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Watson Explorer Engine's search API may hang depending on document contents.

Troubleshooting


Problem

Watson Explorer Engine's search API call may hang and return no response. It depends on the contents of documents you crawled.
The issue was reported in the following condition (It may occur in other condition depending on the crawled data).
  • Data source is web crawler, and
  • In the admin's collection page, "snippet" is appended to the field list of "Output" (Configuration tab> Searching sub tab > Contents section)

Symptom

If the problem happens, the following symptoms can be seen.

  • The engine-cmd command or a REST API call with the velocity CGI hangs and never returns any response. High CPU usage (almost 100%) of the velocity process can be observed during the hang-up.
  • Application Builder's rich preview does not work. The spinner icon keeps spinning and does not show the preview result.

Document Location

Worldwide

[{"Line of Business":{"code":"LOB76","label":"Data Platform"},"Business Unit":{"code":"BU048","label":"IBM Software"},"Product":{"code":"SS8NLW","label":"IBM Watson Explorer"},"ARM Category":[{"code":"a8m0z000000bpE3AAI","label":"technote"}],"ARM Case Number":"","Platform":[{"code":"PF016","label":"Linux"},{"code":"PF033","label":"Windows"}],"Version":"11.0.2;12.0.3"}]

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Document Information

Modified date:
10 December 2020

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ibm16375152