[Box Backup] Comments on BoxBackup 0.09b Win32 reliability?

Ben Summers boxbackup@fluffy.co.uk
Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:57:00 +0000


On 29 Jan 2005, at 18:16, Nick Knight wrote:

>
> I am running the windows port on approx. 10 servers and it does appear
> to be stable, we have an issue where after a month or so of running
> (very randomly) box process will consume 99% of CPU for a period of
> time, not sure whether this has been resolved as I have seen some
> comments that this exist in other ports as well.

For the record, this bug was caused by very large directories. If you 
had more than a few hundred entries, it took a while to think about it. 
It was fixed by using a different algorithm.

Ben