On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote:
> David B Funk wrote:
> > On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote:
> >
> >> Yes. Learning is slow. If two spamd children try to learn at the same
> >> time only one will get a lock to write to the database. The child who
> >> doesn't get the lock (tie fails) will report that autolearn is unavailable.
> >
> > But doesn't bayes_learn_to_journal help this?
>
> If he enabled it, sure, it'd help reduce the frequency that this occurs.
> There's still only a single journal, though, so it's still possible
> that a spamd child process won't get a tie on it during busy periods.
Hmm, as the journal file is an append-only write I had assumed that
it didn't need locking, thus theoretically "simultaneous" updates
could be possible.
--
Dave Funk University of Iowa
<dbfunk (at) engineering.uiowa.edu> College of Engineering
319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-0549 1256 Seamans Center
Sys_admin/Postmaster/cell_admin Iowa City, IA 52242-1527
#include <std_disclaimer.h>
Better is not better, 'standard' is better. B{
