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How To Dynamically Increase Memory Limits When Interfacing With WordPress Using XML-RPC (Windows Live Writer, Etc)


Posted by Artem Russakovskii on November 6th, 2010 in Performance, PHP, Programming, Tips, Tutorials, Wordpress

Updated: August 27th, 2012

Today's snippet is tremendously helpful if you are using an XML-RPC WordPress interface to read and publish your articles and are running into 500 Server Error issues due to running out of memory, manifesting themselves in something like this error message: "Invalid Server Response – The response to the metaWeblog.newMediaObject method received from the weblog server was invalid".

For example, my regular PHP memory allocation is 32MB or so, but if I load up Windows Live Writer, my favorite publishing tool, and ask it to load 1000 of the latest blog posts, I will undoubtedly get a server error back.

One solution would be to increase the memory allocated to PHP to something higher, like 256MB, which is how …

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[Solr] How To Fix java.io.IOException: directory FOO exists and is a directory, but cannot be listed: list() returned null


Posted by Artem Russakovskii on September 21st, 2009 in Linux, Programming, Solr

Updated: July 30th, 2021

The Problem

I am throwing up a quick post about a relatively cryptic error that Solr started throwing the other day here at Plaxo. After happily running for a few days, I suddenly started getting pages about failed Solr indexing.

Upon closer examination, I saw the following repeatedly in the log file:

catalina.2009-09-18.log:SEVERE: java.io.IOException: directory 'DATADIR/index'
exists and is a directory, but cannot be listed: list() returned null

I tried to see if sending an OPTIMIZE command would help but the server returned the same response.

Digging Deeper

The reason was these errors was quite simple – Solr was running …

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