BDB log.xxx Files

[Tino Lange <tino.lange@isg.de>]

Hi!

I have set up a small LDAP Server mainly serving as E-Mail Adressbook 
for Netscape/Mozilla/Outlook Express Clients. It contains about 250 
Entries, wich are updated via a script every 20 minutes.

The Database has indices over
index   objectClass             eq
index   cn,sn,givenName,mail    pres,eq,approx,sub

Today I realized that in the openldap-data dir are a huge (some 
Gigabytes!!) of log.xxxxxxx (where xxxx is an ascending number) logfiles.

I googeled a bit and found:
a) Those are Berkeley DB Transaction logs for recovery, right?
b) I can delete all those files that db_archive tells me are not in use, 
right?

But: since the slapd was running since two weeks or so, db_archive gave 
not one (!) filename that is save to delete. According to b) I have to 
keep all those files? After restarting slapd db_archive then told me a 
lot of files and I could free some diskspace.

Do I really have to restart LDAP every now and then to get safely rid of 
those (<for me>useless</for me>) Transaction logs? Can I configure 
somewhere that I don't need them?

By the way: I found the slapd process to be 224 MB after two weeks - I 
know that might be caching, but is that normal for just one database 
with the above dimensions? After restart it was about 2 MB and now its 
about 5 MB.

Thanks for your help and your time!

Best regards

Tino