What to do when scavenge is stuck?

EventStoreDB
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I started a scavenge ago for about three hours ago and now when I checked it looks like it hasn’t done anything. A .scavenge.tmp file was created but nothing more. I can’t see any files updating changing size so it looks like the scavenge isn’t running.

What should one when this happen?

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Let me know if there is any logs or anything I can provide to help.

3

Anything in logs?

4

I’ll look tomorrow at work.

5

Are you running the latest version?

The release notes for 3.0.3 mention the fix for a bug which sounds like this:

  • Fixed a bug which could cause an infinite loop during scavenging when more than 10 chunks had previously been merged.
6

This must be it. Running 3.0.0.

7

When scavenge is stuck, is it safe to restart event store? And then update event store to a version where this is fixed.

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Yes it is.