[elephant-ticket] #12: Understand and document locking issues

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#12: Understand and document locking issues
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 Reporter:  ieslick  |       Owner:  ieslick
     Type:  task     |      Status:  new    
 Priority:  minor    |   Milestone:         
Component:  db-bdb   |     Version:         
 Keywords:           |  
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 Need to have a better model about multi-thread and multi-process use of
 locks, especially given that BDB is implemented all as one big table.  The
 root of the tree will have many read locks.  What does this mean for
 transaction contention?

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