[Dextrose] [Sugar-devel] Datastore index corruption!

Bernie Innocenti bernie at codewiz.org
Thu Jul 29 17:01:32 EDT 2010


On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 19:21 -0400, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> Here's an almost infallible recipe to reproduce it:
> 
> 1. open Write
> 2. type something
> 3. close Write
> 4. wait a few seconds
> 5. kill -9 the datastore process
> 6. restart sugar (ctrl-alt-del)
> 
> Your saved entry is gone. It still takes up space on disk, but it's no
> longer visible until you rebuild the index.

We figured out that the datastore delays writes to disk by about 60
seconds. This braindead behavior appears to be a *designed*
optimization!

Is it in Rarian or in the datastore code itelf? How do we change it to a
sane 2-3 seconds delay?

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