Re: [Sks-devel] SKS PTree possible corruption?

[Dinko Korunic]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 09:32:22PM -0400, Yaron Minsky wrote:
> Hmm.  This is a rather odd outcome.  I'd be curious as to which OS
> you're running on, because as I understand unix semantics, the error

Actually, Sun Solaris 9 [SunOS xxx 5.9 Generic_112233-12 sun4u sparc] on
UltraSparc processor [specifically, Sun Fire with two 1GHz CPU].

> alarm, and so that should really be that.  Why sigalarm is going off I
> can't really fathom.

Yeps, code seems clear, as far as I can tell... but I don't do OCAML :/
Could it be OCAML/Solaris issue?

> In any case, I have some workarounds in mind that might fix it.  But
> before we go down that route, I'ld like to get some more information
> as to what platform you're running on.

ACK. Tell me if you need any more info, or some tests to be run.

> Another thing worth noting is that the "PTree may be corrupted"
> message is too alarmist.  What may be corrupted is the in-memory copy
> of the PTree.  Since the transaction in question is aborted, there
> should be no problem with the on-disk PTree, and so there should be no
> need for rebuilding the PTree database.

Probably - however, I tried to ignore the message. As a result, those
breakups tended to happen more and more often [sad, but true] and
reconciliation process [db recon] was dying quite often.

Thanks for your time, BTW.

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