[Glass] Safe way to interrupt/stop a GC?

On Feb 25, 2015, at 10:03 AM, Thierry Thelliez via Glass <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hello,

Due to an hardware migration mistake on our side, our Garbage collection suddenly takes too long.  The VM got moved from an SSD to a RAID 10 with fastcache on top of it.  But that ends up not being a good choice.

What is the safest way to interrupt a GC simply started with:

SystemRepository markForCollection.

Can I just kill the process?  That's under the old GLASS appliance running 2.4.  The GC has been running for 8h now.

Thanks,

Thierry

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On Feb 25, 2015, at 10:16 AM, Thierry Thelliez <[hidden email]> wrote:

Thanks for the quick answer.

Before I kill the process, is there a way to know the % GC completion?  In other words I would like to know if the process is about to complete or if we still have a significant amount of waiting time in front of us.

Thierry

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 11:04 AM, James Foster <[hidden email]> wrote:

Yes, you may kill the process. GemStone will recognize the loss of the process and do appropriate cleanup.

James

On Feb 25, 2015, at 10:03 AM, Thierry Thelliez via Glass <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hello,

Due to an hardware migration mistake on our side, our Garbage collection suddenly takes too long.  The VM got moved from an SSD to a RAID 10 with fastcache on top of it.  But that ends up not being a good choice.

What is the safest way to interrupt a GC simply started with:

SystemRepository markForCollection.

Can I just kill the process?  That's under the old GLASS appliance running 2.4.  The GC has been running for 8h now.

Thanks,

Thierry

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