Re: (ITS#7378) Slapd hangs on bdb write lock

[nikolai@net24.co.nz]

Thanks guys - I think we will look at going to MDB as well now.

On 4/09/2012, at 8:42 AM, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:

> --On Monday, September 03, 2012 6:35 PM +0000 hyc@symas.com wrote:
> 
>> Nikolai Schupbach wrote:
>>> Hi Howard,
>>> 
>>> Thank you very much for the explanation. What BDB version would you
>> recommend. Obviously I have quite a few options and would like to use a
>> version that is known to be very solid.
>> 
>> I believe 4.7.25 + all 4 of its official patches was pretty stable.
>> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/products/berkeleydb/patch-088170.html
>> 
>> I've done limited testing with 4.8.30, 5.1.19, and 5.3.21. At this point
>> I'm no longer tracking BDB revisions since MDB has superior performance
>> while using 1/4 as much RAM and requiring no tuning.
> 
> We've been using BDB 4.7.25+all 4 patches without issue for several years as well.  However, I will also note that we are now switching over to MDB as well for our production services starting with OpenLDAP 2.4.32.
> 
> --Quanah
> 
> 
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> Quanah Gibson-Mount
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