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Improve database backend
The database backend for Ganga using a MongoDB
has some performance problems that are limiting its use.
- The startup time of Ganga can be very long
- If there is a failure in the container (running the database) starting, the error messages are not forwarded and it can be very hard to tell what is going on).
- The disk space taken up by the
- The error messages if docker is not available are unclear.
- The
config
object has wrong upper/lower case compared to instructions. Help text saysSingularity
but in reality it should besingularity
. - The large size of the journal files is causing trouble on shared file systems (due to size, but more due to slow write speed).