Hello UIMA users,

I’m currently putting a Ruta-based system in production and I sometimes run out of memory.
This is usually caused by combinatory explosion in Ruta rules. These rules are not necessary faulty: they are adapted to the documents I expect to parse. But as this is an open system, people can upload whatever they want and the parser crashes by multiplying annotations (or at least takes 20 minutes in garbage-collecting millions of annotations).

Thus, my question is: is there a way to limit the memory used by an annotator, or to limit the number of annotations made by an annotator, or to limit the number of matches made by Ruta ?
I prefer cancelling a parse for a given document than a 20 minutes downtime of the whole system.

Several UIMA-based services run in production, I guess that others certainly have hit the same problem.

Any hint on that topic would be very helpful.

Thanks,

Hugues de Mazancourt
http://about.me/mazancourt