Gosts objects

[Chris Muller]

Norberto, given the lack of specific information, I can only speculate
from my gut that you were in a transaction more than one-level deep.
In that case, all changes remain solely in memory until you execute
the outermost #commit and you will not see any change in the
repository files until then.

You said it wasn't the first time you've encountered a problem, so
would you please retrace your steps, documenting them into a script I
can follow that demonstrates a problem?  I would be happy to be help.

Regards,
  Chris



On 9/13/07, Norberto Manzanos <nmanzanos at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Chris and people.
>
> Something really strange has just happened with Magma.
>
> I had a repository. One of its collections had about 11000 objects.
> I made a massive adding of about 600 objects. 10 objects per
> transaction, refreshPersistentObjects... seting to false, readStrategy
> with depth 0.
> When the process finished, the size of the collection was about 11600.
> I noticed the files of the repository hadn't change. When I closed the
> session the collection size was 11000 again. Where were the other? I
> tried sending an #abort (but the whole process was inside
> transactions,so, what for?), then I sent a #cleanUp to MagmaSession (I
> don't known why, magic perhaps). Surprisingly, when I reconnected the
> session and requested the size again, it was 600!. I swear I didn't
> drink nothing but coffee, but when I closed and reconnected the
> session one more time, the collection had the 11000 of the beginning.
> The objects file hadn't changed and the size of the squeak image was
> about 150 Mb. So, they were allways in memory ... but where exactly?
> There was only one instance of MagmaRepositoryController and two
> instances of MagmaSession, one my session, and a __system session.
>
> This is not the first time that many objects disapears in the air.
> What I really want to understand is what could be the reason that
> several #add: to the repository inside a transaction could not be
> actually saved in the files and keeps in memory.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Norberto
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