[openbeos] Re: Post-mortems: a suggested method for continuous improvements

  • From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 20:27:58 +0100 (MET)

Eh, this kind of stuff is funny to learn... one wonder sometimes Why can't I 
unmount this ? 
It's a strange feeling to learn such deep things from his OS:)

Anyway, nice to hear there's a workaround :)


En réponse à Axel Dörfler  <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> > From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > > > heh... I think we also have a big compatibility-problem here...
> > > > net_server
> > > >  being 10 times faster than the original, OBFS being faster and 
> > > > more
> > > > stable -
> > > >  heck, this has to wait for R2..! ;-))
> > >
> > > That it's more stable is yet to be proven - at least you can 
> > > unmount
> > > the original BFS when a thread dies while running a query; it's
> not
> > > affected by that kernel bug.
> > 
> > Hmmmmm... Maybe it does have a workaround in place... I will try to 
> > figure
> > it out... :)
> 
> I just think it doesn't cache the index and B+tree inodes, so that it 
> only leaks some memory in that case. While for our BFS, the cached 
> nodes prevents the fs from being unmounted.
> The only work-around (and that would be the cleanest possibility for 
> R5) is to have a timeout for queries.
> 
> Adios...
>    Axel.
> 
> 
> 
> 





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