zc.zodbdgc 0.3.0

ZODB Distributed Garbage Collection

ZODB Distributed GC

This package provides 2 scripts, for multi-database garbage collection and database validation.

The scripts require that the databases provided to them use 64-bit object ids. The garbage-collection script also assumes that the databases support efficient iteration from transactions near the end of the databases.

multi-zodb-gc

The multi-zodb-gc script takes one or 2 configuration files. If a single configuration file is given, garbage collection is performed on the databases specified by the configuration files. If garbage is found, then delete records are written to the databases. When the databases are subsequently packed to a time after the delete records are written, the garbage objects will be removed.

If a second configuration file is given, then the databases specified in the second configuration file will be used to find garbage. Deleted records are still written to the databases given in the first configuration file. When using replicated-database technology, analysis can be performed using secondary storages, which are usually lightly loaded. This is helpful because finding garbage places a significant load on the databases used to find garbage.

If your database uses file-storages, then rather than specifying a second configuration file, you can use the -f option to specify file-storage iterators for finding garbage. Using file storage iterators is much faster than using a ZEO connection and is faster and requires less memory than opening a read-only file storage on the files.

Some number of trailing days (1 by default) of database records are considered good, meaning the objects referenced by them are not garbage. This allows the garbage-collection algorithm to work more efficiently and avoids problems when applications (incorrectly) do things that cause objects to be temporarily unreferenced, such as moving objects in 2 transactions.

Options can be used to control the number of days of trailing data to be treated as non garbage and to specify the logging level. Use the --help option to get details.

multi-zodb-check-refs

The multi-zodb-check-refs script validates a collection of databases by starting with their roots and traversing the databases to make sure all referenced objects are reachable. Any unreachable objects are reported. If any databases are configured to disallow implicit cross-database references, then invalid references are reported as well. Blob records are checked to make sure their blob files can be loaded.

Optionally, a database of reference information can be generated. This database allows you to find objects referencing a given object id in a database. This can be very useful to debugging missing objects. Generation of the references database increases the analysis time substantially. The references database can become quite large, often a substantial percentage of the size of the databases being analyzed. Typically, you’ll perform an initial analysis without a references database and only create a references file in a subsequent run if problems are found.

You can run the script with the --help option to get usage information.

Change History

0.3.0 2009-09-03

• Optimized garbage collection by using a temporary file to store object references rather than loading them from the analysis database when needed.

• Added an -f option to specify file-storage files directly. It is wildly faster to iterate over a file storage than over a ZEO connection. Using this option uses a file iterator rather than opening a file storage in read-only mode, which avoids scanning the database to build an index and aviods the memory cost of a file-storage index.

0.2.0 2009-06-15

• Added an option to ignore references to some databases.

• Fixed a bug in handling of the logging level option.

0.1.0 2009-06-11

Initial release

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