Re: Garbage entries with intense use

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Rafa wrote:

> I have noticed that when I do massive updates on my OpenLdap my db 
> size increases astonishingly, so I have to take an ldif and create 
> from scratch periodically. Obvioulsy a garbage-entries problem, but 
> seems to be very frequent. I supose it is a db problem, not an ldap 
> problem (in that case, it would have been fixed yet ;)). I don't know 
> exactly wich db uses my server, but it uses .dbb extensions in its files.
> Do you know where is the problem exactly? If the cause is in the db 
> engine, can you recommend me a better one?

You didn't mention the version numbers of anything you're currently 
using. The best available DB engine at the moment is Berkeley DB 
4.2.52(+2 patches). Note that database files tend to be sparse, and 
generally don't actually use as much disk space as the size in their 
directory listing would indicate, so you may be reacting to something 
that isn't a real problem.

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