On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Rayson Ho <[email protected]> wrote:

> I read the BerkeleyDB documentation at Oracle last year, IIRC Oracle
> did not ask for shutdown of the process that uses BerkeleyDB (in our
> case, that's qmaster) before db_archive can be run:
>
> http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_02/html/api_reference/C/db_archive.html
>
> Since you are not using the BDB RPC server, then you don't need to run
> db_checkpoint (bdb_checkpoint.sh calls db_checkpoint), and can simply
> run "db_archive -d" in a weekly crontab.
>


Some googling on Berkeley DB shows that it is safe for concurrent access by
different users, so it should be safe to run db_checkpoint without shutting
down the qmaster.

Simon



>
> Rayson
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Simon Matthews
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Thanks for pointing this out to me
> >
> > The documentation says that it should be used every minute if the
> > configuration uses a BDB server. I don't use a BDB server, but the
> storage
> > method I use is BDB (not flat files). If I should use this checkppoint
> > script, how often should I run it, and should I shut down the qmaster to
> run
> > it?
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> Rayson
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Simon Matthews
> >> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > After SGE was killed by the OOM killed, the  file (a berkely db file)
> in
> >> > my
> >> > cluster was 1.4GB. I did a db_dump and db_load, on this file,
> resulting
> >> > in a
> >> > much smaller file.
> >> >
> >> > However, this then raised the question -- how is this file maintained?
> >> > Presumably, it holds the information on jobs in all states (queued,
> >> > running
> >> > and finished). How do the finished jobs get removed from this file?
> >> > Obviously, I don't want the file to grow without limit.
> >> >
> >> > We are now putting about 50k jobs into our small cluster every day
> (many
> >> > finish running in a fraction of a second).
> >> >
> >> > Simon
> >> >
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