expireover core (perhaps an ov3search bug)

[Bill Davidsen]

On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Katsuhiro Kondou wrote:

> I believe the correct resolution is to recreate whole overview
> when system is crashed.  But by checking size and offset might
> avoid most of dumping core.  I'll modify the code.

  Surely you don't suggest doing this after a crash as anything but a last
chance act of desparation. Rebuilding the history and overview can convert
a minor momentary outage into a many-hour disaster. At least on any
production server I've ever run, it takes hours to complete on even a few
hundred GB of articles.

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bill davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.