Success! At least, a limited form of success. I manged to find the cause of my parameter scoring bug. It was indeed simple and it seems the one fix solved many (hopefully all) of the symptoms. Even better, I think I also found the cause of the memory issue that has recently cropped up. I’m running the fixes now to make sure they work.

It also appears that my ontology builder is working properly. Once I build an ontology out of enough services I should know whether or not my scoring algorithm is effective. It’s working as designed, but whether that is what it needs to do is another matter entirely.

In the meantime, having squashed my bug, I think I have earned a cigar and a glass of Scotch. And I intend to collect my earnings immediately.