So it's sure if I choose to set the checkpointing directive in my slapd.conf like that: "checkpoint 250 15" rather than to use db_checkpoint in a script executed every hour by crontab ?? (cf. slapd.conf + DB_CONFIG) Please, I would like to be sure because there is a FAQ which advises the use of the script rather than the checkpoint directive in the slapd.conf ? > --On Wednesday, November 19, 2003 2:17 PM +0100 Helene.Lastennet@alcatel.fr > wrote: > > >> Hi, > >> > >> Does this problem occurs if you use the checkpoint > >> directive in slapd.conf instead? > > > > I don't know ... > > I chose to use db_checkpoint of BerkeleyDB instead of checkpoint in > > slapd.conf > > because when you read the openldap doc (+ FAQ) it seems to be better to > > make tuning directly in the bdb-backend rather than to use the file of > > configuration slapd.conf ...? > > So what can I do to be sure ? > > Helene, > > You may wish to turn on the slapd checkpointing. Although we also > configure most of our BDB parameters via DB_CONFIG, we set the > checkpointing in slapd.conf. > > --Quanah > > -- > Quanah Gibson-Mount > Principal Software Developer > ITSS/TSS/Computing Systems > ITSS/TSS/Infrastructure Operations > Stanford University > GnuPG Public Key: http://www.stanford.edu/~quanah/pgp.html
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#
# Set the database in memory cache size.
#
set_cachesize 0 52428800 0
#
# Set database flags.
#
#set_flags DB_TXN_NOSYNC
#
# Set log values.
#
set_lg_regionmax 1048576
set_lg_max 10485760
set_lg_bsize 2097152
#set_lg_dir /opt/openldap/var/bdb-logs
#
# Set temporary file creation directory.
#
set_tmp_dir /tmp