drmatt wrote:
> What surprises me is just that one plugin is able to lock the whole
> server. I didn't expect that to be the case, I thought LMS ran
> multi-threaded and individual plugins wouldn't be able to be so evil.
>
Unfortunately its single threaded so its very easy for a plugin to
accidentally lock the server. The plugin APIs related to scanning is a
bit better today compared to when TrackStat was developed to decrease
the risk of this happening during scanning. Scanning is the only thing
that runs as a separate process to avoid the risk of locking the whole
server. However, the scanning APIs would unlikely help with the
TrackStat issues since people would be equally tired of a scanning
process that takes several hours to complete.
The easy solution is to uninstall plugins that cause these kind of
issues, especially unsupported plugins like TrackStat thats unlikely to
be fixed. For people interested in rating support there is a new Ratings
Light plugin thats actively supported and dont have these kind of
issues. Might be worth to encourage the developer of that to add
features necessary to be able to replace TrackStat.
Erland Isaksson ('My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info))
Developer of 'many plugins/applets'
(https://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/User_Erland.html)
*Starting with LMS 8.0 I no longer support my plugins/applets* ('see
here for more information'
(https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?49483-Announce-New-versions-of-erlands-plugins&p=998836&viewfull=1#post998836)
)
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