[Opensim-dev] Opensim database management - garbage collection

[Ai Austin]

Thanks Mike, thatsa giood summary and what I thought...

> From what I understand, nothing is done to old inaccessible assets.
>There is some difficulty in determining which assets are inaccessible.
>The reasons include:
>
>- assets can be referenced in scripts by UUID (so I heard)
>- assets may be referenced by regions not currently online

Yes and Yes.

>In a grid where you control all the regions and databases, it should be
>feasible to write a tool that can discover inaccessible assets.
>...
>AFAIK the texture remains in the DB forever.

So you are right, unless someone does an ACTIVE cleanup of a known 
setup, it cannot be done automatically.

A command console level thing to perhaps run to tidy up one or two 
types of setup MIGHT be worthwhile though?  Opensim databases cannot 
grow forever or we will all have trouble.