locking bayes?

[Greg Matthews]

Julian Field wrote:
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> As opposed to actually stopping (ie shutting down) MailScanner, why not 
> just suspend the processes?
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> PID=`cat /var/run/MailScanner.pid`
> kill -STOP -$PID
> # Do your snapshot here
> kill -CONT -$PID

without testing it (my dev box is currently in the middle of testing 
something else) I would expect to have to hang around waiting for the 
child processes to finish or will they all be "stopped" too?

> 
> Will Bayes survive that?

I dont think it will be much different from taking a snap of the live 
database as presumably it could still be inconsistent, ie partial 
commits etc.

ah nevermind... dont think its that important!

G


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