Re: M3 delay

On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 12:42:30PM -0700, Greg Stein wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 05:07:54AM -0500, kfogel@collab.net wrote:
> >...
> > copy bugginess, but repository maintenance issues are another story.
> > We need to get that stuff fixed before self-hosting.
>
> The maintenance that Karl is referring to here is w.r.t the log files. The
> database grows pretty large due to the log files. There is some stuff in the
> DB docs about how to archive the db, and more specifically: how to detect
> which log files are no longer in use (and can be rm'd). We need to get some
> basic maintenance instructions/procedures figured out and in place.

FYI, for our Berkeley DB-based application, just before we close the
database, we issue txn_checkpoint() and then remove any log files
returned by log_archive(DB_ARCH_ABS). For lots of commits, the log
files will grow and grow and grow but things settle down with normal
use.

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albert chin (china@thewrittenword.com)
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