Back-ends for Monticello?

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Sun Apr 8 10:01:35 UTC 2007


On Apr 8, 2007, at 1:50 , Andreas Raab wrote:

> Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>> Gee, at least we have an intern who can wiggle the mouse which  
>> makes the server responsive again without loosing anything :)
>
> Not in my experience. If the server sits there with 99% CPU  
> consumption there is usually no way to get in there with VNC and  
> wiggle anything. It also seems to be directly related to commits -  
> usually the lock up occurs right after a check-in; probably while  
> SS is trying to write whatever it writes to disk. And usually you  
> loose that last check-in.

We were running the image headful inside an Xvnc session. The lockup  
always occured while saving the database - I added a colored frame to  
indicate whether a save or load is in progress. But wiggling the  
mouse always let the save continue successfully.

> In short, it sucks and loosing a commit every couple of days is  
> simply not acceptable.

Agreed.

- Bert -





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