MS/perl segfaults

[David Lee]

On Mon, 10 Nov 2008, Julian Field wrote:

> One immediate thought: the only reproducible instance of this problem was 
> caused by the HTML parser, and I wrote a solution to that in a recent 
> release, it's in the Change Log.
>
> But yes, your idea is a possibility, now that I'm using SQLite. Doing it with 
> a dbm file is not really practical due to high contention for the exclusive 
> write locks on the file. SQLite may be able to do it rather better.
> [...]

Many thanks, Julian.  I'm glad you think the idea is workable.

As Jonas Larsen confirmed, although such events are rare, their impact on 
a site can be severe (we had 60,000+ emails delayed over the weekend).

My mention of db/dbm was simply illustrative.  Use whatever technology 
(preferably lightweight) that you think is best.  (In my initial vague 
sketch, I was imagining two updates (an insert and delete) per email under 
normal conditions.)

As I say, I'm happy to try to beta-test if you wish.


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