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authorGravatar Richard Hartmann <richih@debian.org>2014-03-15 08:16:46 +0100
committerGravatar Richard Hartmann <richih@debian.org>2014-03-15 08:16:46 +0100
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@@ -3,14 +3,15 @@ the last release unexpectedly fixed XMPP SIGILL on some OSX machines.
Apparently when I rebuilt all the libraries recently, it somehow fixed that
[[old_unsolved_bug|bugs/Share_with_friends_crash_in_osx]].
-RichiH suggested "wrt balloning memory on repair: can you read in broken
+[RichiH](http://richardhartmann.de/) suggested "wrt ballooning memory on
+repair: can you read in broken
stuff and simply stop reading once you reach a certain threshold, then
start repairing, re-run fsck, etc?" .. I had considered that but was
not sure it would work. I think I've gotten it to work.
Now working on a design for using a [[design/caching_database]]
-for some parts of git-annex. My initial benchmarks using sqlite
+for some parts of git-annex. My initial benchmarks using SQLite
indicate it would slow down associated file lookups by nearly an order of
magnitude compared with the current ".map files" implementation.
-(But would scale better in edge cases). OTOH, using a sqlite
+(But would scale better in edge cases). OTOH, using a SQLite
database to index metadata for use in views looks very promising.