[Glass] Is it possible to disable tranlogs for some gems?

[Mariano Martinez Peck via Glass]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 12:32 PM, Dale Henrichs via Glass <
glass at lists.gemtalksystems.com> wrote:

> Yeah, you have to stop the stone, change configs, start stone, do bulk
> load, stop stone, reset configs and the restart stones ... should disable
> customer access during that time as well ... there is a not-tranlogged data
> feature but that is a case where persistent data is not tranlogged and is
> not recoverable on a crash, but in this case you lose the ability to
> recover the persistent state altogether on a crash ... which is probably
> not appropriate in your case .... I am hoping to get the not-tranlogged
> feature hooked up for Seaside3.2 and GemStone3.3, but that is a pipe dream
> at this point:)
>


Hi Dale,

What is the status of this not-tranlogged data? My question is because I
have some cron jobs that run at night, some processing text files and
filling some data. These processes are generating 13GB of tranglos every
day..

Thanks!


>
> Dale
>
>
> On 8/31/15 8:13 AM, Mariano Martinez Peck via Glass wrote:
>
> OK the admin guide proposes to like:
>
> STN_TRAN_LOG_DIRECTORIES = /dev/null, /dev/null;
> STN_TRAN_FULL_LOGGING = TRUE;
>
> But that still implies files modification and stone stop/start right? At
> least I do not need to make a full backup? mmm sounds like....they forgot
> to say that there?
>
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 12:04 PM, Mariano Martinez Peck <
> <marianopeck at gmail.com>marianopeck at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I almost sure the answer is no. But I would like to comment my scenario
>> since there could be other workarounds. I have some daily cron jobs that
>> run at night that do quite large commits. Basically, they read huge files
>> and do a kind of bulk load into GemStone.
>>
>> Once of the things I notice is that for every day, I have like 4 log
>> files of 1GB each. This makes much more space usage on disk (which in my
>> case is importante) and also, I can imagine there is quite a performance
>> downgrade while having to write logs.
>>
>> So since this jobs run at night, with little or none user connect, I am
>> fine with not writing logs while these jobs run. "I am fine" in the sense
>> that if the system crashes while doing so, I am ok to recover from previous
>> checkpoint and lost a few transactions if any.
>>
>> However, it seems it is not possible to disable tranlogs for particular
>> gems, right? In addition, I did not found an easy way to directly
>> enable/disable logs of the stone. To disable, the admin guide says I must
>> run a full backup, then change file, then stop stone, start again etc...So
>> it seems quite complicated...
>>
>> Is there anything that could help me here?
>>
>> I am using GemStone 3.1.0.6
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> --
>> Mariano
>> http://marianopeck.wordpress.com
>>
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