[Xapian-discuss] xapian database corrupt with multi-write

[James Aylett]

On 1 Nov 2011, at 14:27, 潘俊勇 wrote:

> And I am very confused that why the lock file is opened by 'cat'.

This is stated here <http://xapian.org/docs/admin_notes.html#single-writer-multiple-reader>, but there's no explanation: basically we need a very lightweight process that will be kept open until the server process exits.

> Sometimes I killed our server, but I found the file is still locked by 'cat'. It is very strange.
> Maybe the database is corrupt after I start the server again.

That sounds like something specific to your server is causing cat not to exit along with the server process, but Olly may be able to advise further. Is your server multi-process?

J

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