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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
Cc: bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] prserv: don't wait until exit to sync
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 10:51:39 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1415098299.23396.16.camel@ted> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1415090528.23396.4.camel@ted>

On Tue, 2014-11-04 at 08:42 +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
> We're still figuring out what is going on but it is roughly that:
> 
> a) The build generates a ton of IO
> b) That IO builds up into a queue
> c) The PR service decides it needs to sync to disk
> d) The PR service hits an fsync() of some kind in sqlite whilst writing 
> e) The PR service is blocked for its clients until the sync() finishes
> f) Connections to the PR service timeout.
> 
> It would be nice if we could write the sqlite data in a separate thread
> whilst the readers continue. There is an asynchronous module but its
> deprecated:
> 
> http://www.sqlite.org/asyncvfs.html
> 
> WAL is recommended instead:
> 
> http://www.sqlite.org/wal.html
> 
> so we probably need to look at that.

FWIW,

http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/commit/?h=rpurdie/t222&id=df0dabbf90f3da7153295adb83e51c41ae4d9375

is a patch Ross is kindly testing for me...

Cheers,

Richard



  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-04 10:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-27 17:27 [PATCH] prserv: don't wait until exit to sync Ben Shelton
2014-11-02 21:00 ` Burton, Ross
2014-11-03 15:47   ` Ben Shelton
2014-11-03 17:30     ` Richard Purdie
2014-11-03 18:27       ` Gary Thomas
2014-11-04  8:42         ` Richard Purdie
2014-11-04 10:51           ` Richard Purdie [this message]
2014-11-04 13:10             ` Burton, Ross
2014-11-04 14:13     ` Richard Purdie

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