Re: [Tracker] Releasing Tracker 0.6.90

[Martyn Russell <martyn imendio com>]

Jamie McCracken wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 10:49 +0000, Martyn Russell wrote:
> > Martyn Russell wrote:
> > > Jamie McCracken wrote:
> > [snip]
> >
> > > Attila (working at Nokia) has experienced some slowdowns this morning 
> > > with some initial testing - this could be the new extractor logging of 
> > > course and I plan on minimising that, but it could also be this new 
> > > change. He will be investigating it. For now can we revert this?
> > Attila just confirmed the revision which caused the slowdown, and it is 
> > indeed this change. Even Carlos just mentioned it to me. I have as yet 
> > to try it. But it sounds like this needs reverting.
>
> ok you can revert - there is a chance of corruption of course because
> default is FULL if power is cut whilst updating db

Yea, we did have an extensive discussion on this this morning between 
Mikael, Carlos, Jurg and I. There are several points here worth mentioning:

1. We pause ALL indexing on low battery (which is a preventative of 
course but not full proof).

2. No one recently (last 6 months at least) has reported any kind of 
activity.

3. The website says this is really unlikely:

"There is a very small (though non-zero) chance that a power failure at 
just the wrong time could corrupt the database in NORMAL mode. But in 
practice, you are more likely to suffer a catastrophic disk failure or 
some other unrecoverable hardware fault"

I would say the speed impairment is not worth the highly unlikely 
database corruption we could face. If we find this is happening more 
than once or twice for people we can of course change this.

I will go ahead with the release then :)
Thanks,

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Regards,
Martyn