Maximum days of events to keep is not working (no events are removed)

[BetweenTheKeyboardAndChair]

Bug: Old events are not being removed from the events UI tab.

The UI setting preferences for the database are: Database type: In memory

• [check] Maximum days of events to keep [1] days
• Minutes between event purges [60] minutes

System info: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS (focal), ucin 5.4.0-135-generic opensnitch/now 1.6.0-rc.4-1 amd64 [installed,local] python3-opensnitch-ui/now 1.6.0-rc.4-1 all [installed,local] protobuf: 3.6.1 grpc: 1.37.1

To Reproduce Start opensnitch and the UI, and let it run. No events have been removed since the process was started 2 weeks ago. i.e. If I reverse sort events by time on the events tab, I see events from 1/26/22.

[gustavo-iniguez-goya]

Hi @BetweenTheKeyboardAndChair ,

I've been analyzing this issue, and I've found a solution. I'll test it for a couple of days to see if there's any downside.

The problem is how QsqlDatabase works from different threads:

A connection can only be used from within the thread that created it.

In order to access a database from different threads you create a new QsqlDatabase connection to the DB specifying the DB name/file. With DBs written to the disk, the database file/name is always the same (say /tmp/file.db).

But with in-memory databases, whenever you create a new connection with :memory:, it always create a new in-memory DB, so the DB is empty for the cleaner task, and that's why it was not deleting old events.