[Exist-development] Log file shrinkage and problems with database restarts....

[Andrzej J. T. <an...@ch...>]

Just rebuilt my application eXist database from scratch, and then put 25K xml documents into it. Latest trunk from SVN.

I seem to have a 6GB 0000000000.log file in my data directory after the storing of the 25K xml documents.

When does this log file get shrunk?

Is there any way to force it to be sync'ed and shrunk?

So I left the database alone for about an hour after the reload.  And then shut it down (2 minute delay on shutdown)
using a normal Tomcat shutdown.

But now when I restart the database I get the long running "Scanning journal [=====..." task as the database starts up
in the Tomcat container.

What's with this massive journal scanning on restart?

It's like my transactions never committed and so it's reprocessing the monster 6GB log file.

Never used to do this....back a month or so ago.

Some help in explaining what might be going on would be appreciated.

Thanks!

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Andrzej Taramina
Chaeron Corporation: Enterprise System Solutions
http://www.chaeron.com