Checkpoint might not get cleaned up in case of abrupt shutdown and thus stop GC for 3 years!

2014-09-10 Thread Chetan Mehrotra
Currently AsyncIndexUpdate creates a checkpoint with a lifetime of 3 years. Post index complete the checkpoint is moved to point to revision upto which indexing is done and previous checkpoint is released. Now if a system is killed when a index update is in progress particularly in run method

Re: Checkpoint might not get cleaned up in case of abrupt shutdown and thus stop GC for 3 years!

2014-09-10 Thread Chetan Mehrotra
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Alex Parvulescu alex.parvule...@gmail.com wrote: Second is the worse in my view, the cp get created and referenced with a life of 3y, but the async gets shut down and doesn't get a chance to cleanup. This is a node state that will keep the GC from cleaning