13.01.2014 13:49, fernnaj wrote:

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> I would like to understand the automatic sweeping in the case of a 2.5.x SuperServer, with GCPolicy=background and non-zero interval.
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> The policy 'background' suggests that it's a background thread - and not the query workers - that will perform the actual sweep.

GCPolicy is about the garbage collection, not about the sweep.

> So, is this also true for the automatic sweep - that it will be done in the background thread?

In SuperServer, sweep always runs in a separate thread.


Dmitry