SQLite

  ** during the few nanoseconds that it is holding the lock.  In that case,
  ** it might take longer than normal for the lock to free.
  **
  ** After 5 RETRYs, we begin calling sqlite3OsSleep().  The first few
  ** calls to sqlite3OsSleep() have a delay of 1 microsecond.  Really this
  ** is more of a scheduler yield than an actual delay.  But on the 10th
  ** an subsequent retries, the delays start becoming longer and longer, 
  ** so that on the 100th (and last) RETRY we delay for 21 milliseconds.
  ** The total delay time before giving up is less than 1 second.
  ** so that on the 100th (and last) RETRY we delay for 323 milliseconds.
  ** The total delay time before giving up is less than 10 seconds.
  */
  if( cnt>5 ){
    int nDelay = 1;                      /* Pause time in microseconds */
    if( cnt>100 ){
      VVA_ONLY( pWal->lockError = 1; )
      return SQLITE_PROTOCOL;
    }
    if( cnt>=10 ) nDelay = (cnt-9)*238;  /* Max delay 21ms. Total delay 996ms */
    if( cnt>=10 ) nDelay = (cnt-9)*(cnt-9)*39;
    sqlite3OsSleep(pWal->pVfs, nDelay);
  }

  if( !useWal ){
    rc = walIndexReadHdr(pWal, pChanged);
    if( rc==SQLITE_BUSY ){
      /* If there is not a recovery running in another thread or process