On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Robby Findler <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote: >> I don't recognize the error immediately, but I think it might be that >> the continuation wasn't found for some reason. Perhaps the file was so >> big the continuation was gone before the upload was complete. > > That doesn't seem good! If that were the case, it would mean that a gc > that happens during an upload could potentially cause the upload to > fail?
The continuations are reclaimed independently from the GC. They are always reachable, because I never know when a new request will come in for them. (For example, someone could go to a site, write down the URL, store it in a safety deposit box with instructions for their grand-child to go to the site on their 50th birthday, etc.) It would be cool to do something GC-like by inspecting all current requests during a reclamation phase, but it's not on my radar. (And actually wouldn't fix this problem, because until the upload is complete there is no request to observe.) Jay -- Jay McCarthy <jay at cs.byu.edu> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University http://teammccarthy.org/jay "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93
