v2 instability?

[Derek Atkins]

Tim Jackson <lists at timj.co.uk> writes:

> However since I upgraded my system from Fedora 5 to Fedora 6 (and 
> therefore went from GC 1.x to 2.0.2), it's just been a nightmare. GC 
> seems to crash at the slightest provocation (notably splitting 
> transactions) and the latest trick today is that it takes several 
> *minutes* to start up (looping through mremap or something) and once it 
> finally loads appears to have completely corrupted my data with random 
> transactions missing. (I guess the corruption and slow startup are 
> connected...)

The "split txn" crash is a known issue and I believe we have a fix
in the works.  So that should get fixed in 2.0.3.

As for the "corrupted data" -- I'd have to see what you mean, because
I've not seen that problem.

> I will of course try to look deeper and get some backtraces, but I was 
> just wondering if there were known issues (particularly with upgrading 
> large datafiles from 1.x)?

None that we know of.

> Thanks
>
> Tim

-derek

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