Bug 5105 -- patch?
Gerald (Jerry) Carter
jerry at samba.org
Tue Dec 4 15:32:45 GMT 2007
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Volker Lendecke wrote:
> Facing a corrupt tdb with a cyclic freelist or a cyclic hash
> chain this patch turns the endless loop spinning those
> cycles into high CPU load.
Right. That's what I thought. Just with a loop counter on
the max freelist/hashchain size.
>> How likely is your comment, "...but it also might render some valid
>> tdb's as invalid."?
>
> Well, how likely is a tdb with a million entries in a hash
> chain? With 131 chains as default this would be a tdb with
> more than 10 million entries before it gets likely to have
> such a long chain. Users will have seen a severe performance
> degradation long before that.
Sounds fine to me. Thanks for the tdb lesson.
cheers, jerry
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