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authorFrank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>2020-10-29 14:25:18 -0400
committerFrank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>2020-10-30 10:09:29 -0400
commit2237828857f064da554114c8027743418cad1a18 (patch)
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parentf5015aebdb33af71841a48efe51692917f63ee63 (diff)
downloadelfutils-2237828857f064da554114c8027743418cad1a18.tar.gz
PR26775: make grooming progress visible & interruptible
On very large servers, it's desirable to be able to interrupt a rescan or groom cycle. SIGUSR[12] now do that. (Unfortunately, this is not practically testable in the testsuite, since these cycles are so fast on that small dataset.) We also expose more internal progress count about the grooming pass, so the administrator can assess possible need to interrupt. Signed-off-by: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
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@@ -155,7 +155,8 @@ before doing it again. A rescan for unchanged files is fast (because
the index also stores the file mtimes). A time of zero is acceptable,
and means that only one initial scan should performed. The default
rescan time is 300 seconds. Receiving a SIGUSR1 signal triggers a new
-scan, independent of the rescan time (including if it was zero).
+scan, independent of the rescan time (including if it was zero),
+interrupting a groom pass (if any).
.TP
.B "\-g SECONDS" "\-\-groom\-time=SECONDS"
@@ -167,7 +168,8 @@ it can deindex obsolete files. See also the \fIDATA MANAGEMENT\fP
section. The default groom time is 86400 seconds (1 day). A time of
zero is acceptable, and means that only one initial groom should be
performed. Receiving a SIGUSR2 signal triggers a new grooming pass,
-independent of the groom time (including if it was zero).
+independent of the groom time (including if it was zero), interrupting
+a rescan pass (if any)..
.TP
.B "\-G"