Re: dissection of search latency

[Marijn Meijles <marijn@bitpit.net>]

You wrote:
> Fascinating. Assuming that both backends were built using the same version
> of Berkeley DB, I'd guess the slowdown in back-bdb is due to transaction
> management. Except, the search code is not transaction-protected, so it's
That doesn't matter much. If you have outstanding transactions and you run your
search with a null txn, bdb still has to check against the locks of the outstanding
transactions (and cursors with null txn).

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