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Improve database backend

Open egede opened this issue 3 years ago • 0 comments

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 says Singularity but in reality it should be singularity.
  • The large size of the journal files is causing trouble on shared file systems (due to size, but more due to slow write speed).

egede avatar Apr 15 '21 01:04 egede