On 12 Jan 2009, at 12:40, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > David Earl wrote: >> suspect his vicious circle started because there was one day when >> there >> was an exceptionally large update and this ran fro > 24 hours, >> running >> into the next. > > It could also be the fact that there was no daily diff in the early > hours of 1st Jan because the server had frozen; the > 2008-12-13-to-2009-01-01 diff was then generated in the next daily > diff > run, 24 hours late, and just an hour later the 01-01-to-01-02 diff > came in. > > Maybe in situations like these you can just stop the update and when > the > next weekly update comes, use that to re-sync? >
Is there a lock in the update process, so that a second update won't try to start before the first has finished? Shaun _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev

