RE: deferring operation?

["Howard Chu" <hyc@highlandsun.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
> [mailto:owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org]On Behalf Of Paul Reilly

> Howard - I'm was planning on upgrading to 2.1.17 and BerkeleyDB 4.1.25
> but I saw a reference to a problem with muti-processor machines and
> 4.1.x. This machine is a dual proc Xeon 1.8 GHz with
> hyperthreading (so
> it appears as a 4 processor box to linux). Could this be a problem?
> Would I be better sticking with 4.0.14 ?

BDB 4.0 is no longer supported in the current OpenLDAP 2.1 releases. The
disposition of OpenLDAP 2.1 wrt multi-processor systems isn't totally clear
to me at the moment.  The development code doesn't have any problem, but I'm
not sure whether this is a problem or not in the pending 2.1.18 code.

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