[OSM-dev] Anyone with a speedy gazetteer

[Shaun McDonald]

On 12 Jan 2009, at 12:40, Frederik Ramm wrote:

> Hi,
>
> David Earl wrote:
>> suspect his vicious circle started because there was one day when  
>> there
>> was an exceptionally large update and this ran fro > 24 hours,  
>> running
>> into the next.
>
> It could also be the fact that there was no daily diff in the early
> hours of 1st Jan because the server had frozen; the
> 2008-12-13-to-2009-01-01 diff was then generated in the next daily  
> diff
> run, 24 hours late, and just an hour later the 01-01-to-01-02 diff  
> came in.
>
> Maybe in situations like these you can just stop the update and when  
> the
> next weekly update comes, use that to re-sync?
>

Is there a lock in the update process, so that a second update won't  
try to start before the first has finished?

Shaun