[Chandler-dev] Compaction feature

[Reid Ellis]

On May 17, 2007, at 17:59, Andi Vajda wrote:
> On Thu, 17 May 2007, Jared Rhine wrote:
>> I sent this email a couple days ago:
>>
>> http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/chandler-dev/2007-May/ 
>> 008233.html
>>
>> but multiple people told me they didn't get a copy.  So a quick  
>> resend.  The body:
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: 	[commits] (vajda) [14318] - fixed bug in trying to  
>> duplicate a
>> closed cursor
>>
>> - added CompactTask, a durable task compacting the repository  
>> every 7 days
>>
>> -----
>>
>> Am I reading this right, that every 7 days all Chandler users will  
>> have
>> to confirm a dialog (or reject and get that dialog the next day)?
>
> Yes, this is a 'courtesy'. The alternative is have chandler block  
> the UI once a week for doing a compact for a few minutes to a bit  
> more (on Esther's repository of 6500 versions, it ran in 3.5 hours).
>
> In other words, if your repository got so big as to cause a lot of  
> disk access when iterated to be compacted, your CPU usage goes down  
> to 10% (or less) and your HDD usage goes to 100%. On a laptop, this  
> can be v e r y  s l o w.
>
>> I certainly understand how the functionality of compaction will be a
>> benefit to end-users.  Just not too psyched at the UI aspects.   
>> Has all
>> the charm of a recurring Windows systray security popup.
>
> :)
>
> Andi..

I would hope that this dialog requires zero interaction -- no "Okay"  
button or anything. Just a "Cancel" in case you don't want to do it  
now? So it runs and closes itself?

Reid