How do dead records get into a tdb file?

[Jeremy Allison]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 08:31:47PM -0800, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> We recently saw a tdb file get very large:
> 
> tdb> info
> Size of file/data: 2785345536/3293549
> Number of records: 99
> Smallest/average/largest keys: 9/9/10
> Smallest/average/largest data: 72/33258/2616464
> Smallest/average/largest padding: 30/5374/367322
> Number of dead records: 1 ---> only one dead record
> Smallest/average/largest dead records: 2718339048/2718339048/2718339048 -->
> 
> That dead record is a concern.

What tdb file was it - and if you
dump the dead record what kind of
data is within it ?

Jeremy.