Ticket #258 (new defect)

Opened 7 months ago

Last modified 6 months ago

Sysadmin doc should mention we fork to lock under Unix

Reported by: james Owned by: olly
Priority: normal Milestone:
Component: Other Version:
Severity: normal Keywords:
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Operating System: All Blocking:

Description

Sysadmins who pay attention to a Xapian install often are confused by either the forking behaviour or the presence of a child process during locking. Both should be explicitly mentioned in the documentation for sysadmins, to explain why it is a good thing.

We should perhaps also mention problems that could prevent the locking from working, such as resource limits and capability restrictions.

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