From: Matt Armstrong <marmstrong@google.com>
To: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: A systematic way of handling Xapian lock errors?
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2016 15:46:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <qf5k2fykcvk.fsf@marmstrong-linux.kir.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lh0evmk9.fsf@maritornes.cs.unb.ca>
David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:
> Matt Armstrong <marmstrong@google.com> writes:
>
>
>> To address both, has something like this ever been considered:
>>
>> notmuch --lock_timeout <seconds> COMMAND ARG...
>>
>> Then frontends like Emacs could lean on retry logic written in C. If
>> this seems workable, it is something I can try implementing.
>
> notmuch in git master uses xapians lock retry if present (xapian
> 1.3+). Currently there is no timeout, but Olly seemed receptive to the
> idea of adding one, so I'd suggest that's the right place to work on
> improving this. You may find that just having unbounded lock retries
> (i.e. blocking opens) is enough for your issues.
Ah great. I am still on Xapian 1.2 by way of running a relatively old
Linux distro. Building a personal version of Xapian as we speak...
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-02 22:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-02 15:26 A systematic way of handling Xapian lock errors? Matt Armstrong
2016-08-02 22:21 ` David Bremner
2016-08-02 22:46 ` Matt Armstrong [this message]
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