annotations.db corruption

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 10:54:24PM -0400, Ken Murchison wrote:
> Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> >On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 05:24:53PM -0400, Ken Murchison wrote:
> >>Martin Konold wrote:
> >>>Am Freitag, 7. April 2006 16:35 schrieb Ken Murchison:
> >
> >>>>or a process if dying in the middle of a txn.
> >>>This is also my guess. (I am guessing that a process dies due to some 
> >>>memory allocation/mapping issues and I spotted some potential code 
> >>>candidates.)
> >>>
> >>>Can you explain how a dying process can create such a broken skiplist db?
> >>>
> >>>I was under the impression that due to the transactional nature of 
> >>>skiplist a dying process cannot turn the db unusable.
> >>Like I said, I'm not real familiar with the skiplist code so I don't 
> >>know if my guess is reasonable or not.
> >
> >Do you know whom we could ask that is familiar with the code?
> >We also consider switching to berkeley db for this database,
> >would you recommend this? It seem much better to get to the core of
> >the problem, but we seem to be stuck so far.
> 
> I've already asked the person that wrote the code to take a look and 
> share his thoughts.

Thanks, we are looking forward to it.
Note that Martin Konold has meanwhile proposed an
experiemental patch within issue840
that replaced unmap;map with remap.


https://intevation.de/roundup/kolab/issue840
(see file attachments on the bottom.)



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