[ZODB-Dev] zeo clients seeing a different size of database?

[Jim Fulton]

On Jun 16, 2008, at 12:38 PM, Alan Runyan wrote:

> Hi guys.  This is more of a trivia question, I guess.
>
> Just saw something kinda strange.
> Customer had a zeo server where each 4 zeo clients connected.
> Some zeo clients were showing different sizes of the database.
> 5.2MB vs. 4.9MB.
>
> Not that this is a big deal at all.  But it was kinda strange.
>
> It is possible for zeo clients to report different sizes of a ZEO  
> server.

Yes

> Why?


The client gets the size value from the storage server when it  
connects.  A client gets an update of the database size when *it*  
commits a transaction.  Don't ask me why it has this policy. :)


Jim



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Jim Fulton
Zope Corporation