Review Request 128885: Increase size limit of baloo index for 64-bit machines

[Boudhayan Gupta]

> On Sept. 11, 2016, 10:20 p.m., Boudhayan Gupta wrote:
> > src/engine/database.cpp, line 107
> > <https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/128885/diff/1/?file=476712#file476712line107>
> >
> >     This is clever, but I had to read it thrice to figure out what exactly it does. Maybe use this:
> >     
> >     ```
> >     ((sizeof(size_t) == 4) ? 1 : 256) * size_t(1024 * 1024 * 1024)
> >     ```
> >     
> >     Seems more readable to me - the significant digits of the size followed by the multiplier.
> >     
> >     If there's a performance or strictness issue I'm not seeing, please tell me.

Err, could you also calculate the effective size in a const on the line above? Sorry about the nitpick, I just want readability.


- Boudhayan


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On Sept. 11, 2016, 4:27 p.m., Christoph Cullmann wrote:
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> (Updated Sept. 11, 2016, 4:27 p.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Frameworks, Boudhayan Gupta, David Faure, and Pinak Ahuja.
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> Repository: baloo
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> Description
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> Increase size limit of baloo index for 64-bit machines to avoid crashs after > 5GB of index size.
> (Better would be additional out-of-space handling, but ATM baloo has zero checks for that)
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> The size limit for 32-bit is still 1GB, like before (there was a silent overflow from 5GB to 1GB in the computation), people with large homes will still get random segfaults on 32-bit.
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> Patch based on patch from Hao Zhang, Bug 364475
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364475
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> Diffs
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>   src/engine/database.cpp 89e2e03 
>   src/engine/databasesize.h aa180fb 
>   src/engine/transaction.cpp 0af20be 
>   src/tools/balooctl/statuscommand.cpp 73289c4 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/128885/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Christoph Cullmann
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