Jake Smith

@ghalliday @mckellyln - please review NB: quite a lot of the apparent change is moving code inside try/catch blocks.

@ghalliday - please see commit #2

@ghalliday - squashed.

@Michael-Gardner @dcamper - 10 minutes might not be enough.. (e.g. it starting up cold with a huge transaction log..) Perhaps we should ensure Dali does start up before proceeding and...

> @jakesmith I agree with your comments, but I think it depends on what the purpose (or goal) of this change is. What I was aiming for was just a...

> This is specific to bare-metal environments, correct? Just trying to determine priorities. yep.

@shamser - can you remind me why this isn't/can't be implemented via the StatisticsAggregator mechanism?

> To update the aggregates immediately within setStatistic, it would need to create an StatisticsAggregator object, load all of the existing statistics from global stats That is already happening though(?),...

@shamser - please squash.

@shamser - infact this also covers a hashdistribute spilling, which is also used as part of hash dedup (so https://hpccsystems.atlassian.net/browse/HPCC-28757 alone won't give a full picture of a hash dedup;s...