RE: back-bdb performance/configuration: Suggestions?

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

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> [mailto:owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org]On Behalf Of Frank Swasey

> > The one major thing I see with your configuration, is that
> your logfiles &
> > temporary files appear to be going to the same partition as
> your BDB
> > database.  The point of seperating those files out is not
> that they be in a
> > different directory than the BDB database, but (preferably)
> on a completely
> > different disk than the BDB database.  Since you only have
> 1 drive, I don't
> > see that that is a possibility.  Have you tried putting
> them on different
> > partitions?
>
> No, I have not tried putting them on a different partition.
> I can try
> that, but on the face of it, I didn't see that a different
> partition (on
> the same physical drive) would really make a lot of
> difference -- am I
> wrong?

My intuition here is that using a different partition won't help. However,
there a lot of factors to consider, and it probably wouldn't hurt to try. But
really, you need a second disk; the disk seek overhead is what's killing
these write times.

  -- Howard Chu
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