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2013-01-25Update copyright yearsBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
2012-10-01mnesia: Use chained send_after instead of send_intervalJames Wheare
timer:send_interval behaves badly when resuming from sleep on some platforms. For example, if I sleep for 10 minutes, and have a send_interval running once per minute, when I resume, 10 messages will be sent immediately, eliminating the benefit of only running the work periodically. This is admittedly a separate bug with send_interval, but the workaround is straightforward, and also protects from messages piling up in the queue when the work takes longer than the interval. This patch fixes piled up error reports on resume from sleep: ** WARNING ** Mnesia is overloaded: {dump_log, write_threshold} You'll still be warned if mnesia is overloaded, just not repeatedly. Additionally, erlang:send_after is more efficient than using the timer module equivalent [1] [1] http://www.erlang.org/doc/efficiency_guide/commoncaveats.html#id57251
2011-12-09Merge branch 'dgud/mnesia/read-sticky-bug/OTP-9786'Dan Gudmundsson
* dgud/mnesia/read-sticky-bug/OTP-9786: [mnesia] Read record from correct node [mnesia] Fixed sticky read lock bug [mnesia] Whitespace fixes Conflicts: lib/mnesia/src/mnesia_log.erl
2011-12-06[mnesia] Whitespace fixesDan Gudmundsson
2011-11-28[mnesia] Add possibility for implementation dependent storage options to ↵Dan Gudmundsson
create_table
2011-11-07[mnesia] Make all schema operations protocol awareDan Gudmundsson
Allow schema operation even if not all nodes are upgraded to latest version.
2011-09-15[mnesia] Fix schema conversion to previous versionsDan Gudmundsson
2011-09-15[mnesia] Mnesia schema merge tested with 2 nodes, r13b04 -> r14b (dev)Ulf Wiger
The do_merge_schema function now converts cstructs from a remote node when it detects that they are different. In order to be compatible the other way around, mnesia_controller:get_cstructs() detects a remote caller, and converts the cstructs before sending them.
2011-05-16where_to_wlock optimization + change_table_majority/2Ulf Wiger
2011-04-04Mnesia sometimes failed to tell all nodes that it had started.Dan Gudmundsson
2010-09-15mnesia: Do not auto-import error/2Tuncer Ayaz
Resolve name clash with auto-imported BIF error/2.
2010-06-04Merge branch 'uw/mnesia-overload' into devErlang/OTP
* uw/mnesia-overload: Enable continuous monitoring of mnesia overload status
2010-06-04Merge branch 'uw/mnesia-schema-merge' into devErlang/OTP
* uw/mnesia-schema-merge: remove debug printout and accidental variable name reuse Allow a user_defined function to wrap mnesia_schema:merge_schema()
2010-06-02Allow a user_defined function to wrap mnesia_schema:merge_schema()Ulf Wiger
Mnesia currently notifies the user if it detects a partitioned network, but the options for resolving the situation are limited. In practice, the only safe options are: - set master_nodes and restart one of the affected 'islands' - restart the entire system from backup This patch introduces a way to resolve the situation without restarting any nodes. The key to doing this safely is to lock affected tables and run the merge function inside the same transaction that merges the schema. Otherwise, one transaction will merge the schema, after which writes to the database will be replicated across the (potentially) inconsistent copies; the transaction triggered by the asynchronous inconsistency event will have to race to be the first to access the tables. The normal call to merge the schema is done from mnesia_controller. Previously, this was mnesia_schema:merge_schema(). The new function is merge_schema(UserFun), with the following behaviour: merge_schema(UserFun) -> schema_transaction( fun() -> UserFun(fun(Arg) -> do_merge_schema(Arg) end) end). Where do_merge_schema(LockTabs) will execute the schema merge as before, but also lock all tables in the list LockTabs which have copies on the affected nodes (that is, everywhere the schema table is locked). The effect of this is to allow a wrapper function that calls the merge and, if successful, continues to resolve the inconsistency on the tables, knowing that they have now been locked on all affected nodes. The function that is actually called by the deconflict function is mnesia_controller:connect_nodes(Nodes, UserFun), as in: Tables = tables_to_deconflict(Node), mnesia_controller:connect_nodes( [Node], fun(MergeF) -> case MergeF(Tables) of {merged,_,_} -> deconflict(Tables, Node); Other -> Other end). In the case where the merge fails, it is probably wise to restart from a backup... I have not run the mnesia test suite, as it is not available. I have not updated documentation, as these functions are not documented in the first place.
2010-05-09Enable continuous monitoring of mnesia overload statusUlf Wiger
Mnesia currently issues an event whenever it detects an overload condition. It recognizes two different types of overload: - whenever the message queue of mnesia_tm process grows large - when a log dump interval triggers before the previous dump is done These events could be used to trigger a load regulation mechanism to reduce the load until the condition seizes. The missing piece is that there is no facility to ask mnesia whether the overload condition still exists. This patch implements a couple of functions in mnesia_lib that can be used to sample the overload status. It has been tested in a load regulator component being developed by Erlang Solutions. No mnesia test suites have been run, since they are not available. No documentation has been updated. The functions in mnesia_lib are at any rate undocumented (as are all other functions in that module). A decision would have to be made about whether to provide a documented API on top of these functions. The internal state record of mnesia_recover has been modified. For this reason, a code change hook has been provided.
2009-11-20The R13B03 release.OTP_R13B03Erlang/OTP