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List:       pgp-keyserver-folk
Subject:    Re: PGP Key Server Version 0.9.4 release
From:       Marc Horowitz <marc () mit ! edu>
Date:       1999-06-08 21:21:42
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Marcel Waldvogel <mwa@tik.ee.ethz.ch> writes:

>> I am running pksd and try to incorporate Teun's key database in chunks
>> using "pksclient . add <chunk>". Sometimes, pksclient complains that it
>> cannot checkpoint the database (and a "db_checkpoint -v -1" was retrying
>> indefinitely, because the checkpoint did not complete).

I've seen this.  I'm guessing that a checkpoint cannot run when a
transaction is active.  Since add is a very long-lived transaction,
you are having trouble.  I could change the code for add to make each
added or changed key a separate transaction.  This might help.

>> I have also seen pksd complain about receiving unpinned blocks.

I'm not sure what this means.

>> After such failures, "pksclient . recover" often segfaults when executed for
>> the first time (and sometimes the second and third time), close to the end. 
>> Another recover usually helps.

I can report this to sleepycat, but the test case isn't very simple :-/

>> While recovering after the most recent failure, I've also seen many
>> complaints that some (many) pages did not exist and the create flag was not
>> set. They went away after half a dozen or so recover runs.

Wow.  I'll definitely report this.

		Marc

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