Re: Openldap 2.2.19 cannot find db-4.3.21

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Igor Brezac wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
>
> > --On Tuesday, November 30, 2004 1:03 PM -0500 Igor Brezac 
> > <igor@ipass.net> wrote:
> >
> > > BDB 4.3.21 is not self-contained.  This is a bug with the sleepycat 
> > > build
> > > process.
> > >
> > > In the meaning time, you can build openldap as follow:
> > >
> > > LIBS=-lrt ./configure ....
> >
> >
> > Well, since you asked about bugs in 4.3.21, this is one of the ones I 
> > reported. ;)
Sleepycat bug #11437, for those who are tracking these things.

> > Another bug I found involves using the in-memory logs as a 
> > replacement for DB_TXN_NOSYNC.  If you have a DB with more than 
> > approximately 66,000 entries, and you add it with the in-memory logs, 
> > the add will fail.
I think you meant DB_TXN_NOT_DURABLE

> As long as you do not use DB_LOG_INMEMORY, this should not be an issue.

As Quanah mentions, not using this can be quite annoying during 
slapadd/slapindex.

> > Sleepycat also mentioned in passing in one of my email exchanges with 
> > them that they have several other patches for 4.3.21 as well.
> >
> > Performance testing on 4.3.21 found it to be markedly slower on 
> > Solaris than 4.2.52 as well.
>
>
> How much of a performance hit do you see?  In one of his recent 
> messages, Howard mentioned that he exclusively uses 4.3.21...
I also don't test on Solaris as frequently as I do on Linux...

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