RE: Performance Problems

["Howard Chu" <hyc@highlandsun.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
> [mailto:owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org]On Behalf Of John Morrissey

> On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 03:43:41PM -0800, Christoph Neumann wrote:
> % OK.  How do I set "DB_TXN_NOSYNC".  I can't find a
> reference to it in the
> % Administrators Guide and the Faq-o-matic doesn't specify
> how to use this
> % value.  I did find "dbnosync" in "slapd-bdb" man page.  Is
> that the same
> % thing?

YES. The back-bdb "dbnosync" option is exactly the same as the BDB
DB_TXN_NOSYNC option.

> It's not a good idea to use
> this outside of
> batch adds, as transactions could still be cached (not yet
> forced to disk)
> if the machine crashes with this option enabled.

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