Re: how do you delete the entire openldap bdb database

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>]

--On Friday, June 25, 2004 7:40 PM +0200 Buchan Milne 
<bgmilne@obsidian.co.za> wrote:

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> Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
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> | Not necessarily.  It depends on how you've configured your DB_CONFIG
> | file.
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> | For example, if you are wise, you put your BDB transaction logs on a
> | different disk or partition.
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> You have said this many times, but you should at least qualify it. I
> have a situation where it is most certainly *not* wise to have the
> transaction logs anywhere but on the same partition as the database ...

Sure...

Repeated tests have shown that if you have your transactions logs on the 
same spindle as your DB, you can severely impact and degrade performance of 
the directory service if there is a high volume of writes occuring.

Better? :)

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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ITSS/Shared Services
Stanford University
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