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Re: New (1.5) feature questions -- things we need to address before a release can happen

From: David Summers <david_at_summersoft.fay.ar.us>
Date: 2007-10-24 04:31:06 CEST

On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Karl Fogel wrote:

> David Summers <david@summersoft.fay.ar.us> writes:
>> When a large commit happens to the slave server (re-directed to the
>> master via web-dav proxy) then sometimes for a long time (1.5 hours
>> this last time) the user got errors on his client (I can get the exact
>> error if people are interested) until the slave synced up with the
>> master repository.
>>
>> This happens 100% of the time if the commit is beyond some magic
>> number of megabytes (or seconds, not sure which).
>>
>> Should I enter this as a problem in the issue tracker so we don't
>> forget about it?
>
> +1

Posted as issue # 2988.

>> Karl had some suggestions about a couple of different ways to fix it.
>>
>> Is this something that would be "easy" to do?
>
> I don't think so. The right fix is for the slave to proxy over to the
> master for reads as well, when a client requests a revision higher
> than the slave's current youngest.
>
> An alternative (for less load on the slave) is for the client to
> notice the particular error from the slave, and contact the master
> itself. But that might have working copy metadata implications.
>
> I don't think that...
>
>> It would be SUPER SWEET if this could be fixed for 1.5.0.
>
> ... solving this for 1.5.0 is realistic, though would love to be
> proven wrong of course.
>

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