On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 5:04 PM, Simon Slavin <slav...@bigfraud.org> wrote:

>
> On 15 Jan 2017, at 1:01am, Kevin O'Gorman <kevinogorm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Update: the integrity check said "ok" after about 1/2 hour.
> > the record count now takes about 4 seconds -- maybe I remembered wrong
> and
> > it always took this long, but I wasn't stopping it until it had hung for
> > several minutes.
>
> What you describe actually sounds more like a hardware problem.  You had a
> 'sticky' disk, affecting at least some of the sectors in which that
> database is stored, which has now sorted itself out.  But sometime in the
> future it may become sticky again.  If you have some sort of disk checking
> software you might like to try it.
>
> Given your 5 indexes, 30 minutes to check an 11GB file is completely
> reasonable.  Don’t worry about that.
>
> Good luck with it.
>

It turns out you're right about the time for a check.  However, I don't buy
the "sticky disk" idea.  I could copy the files just fine.  I could create
a new file of the same size just fine.  But sqlite3 was stuck.  How does
that happen?  I don't know, and my imagination is stuck.


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