Re: having too run db_recover every time the server crashes

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

--On Monday, November 10, 2003 2:22 PM +0100 Tarjei Huse <tarjei@nu.no> 
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm running a openldap 2.1.22 server built with db 4.1.25 that has been
> running on a server with stabilityproblems. After each crash (and then
> reboot) I have had to run db_recover to get the ldapserver up and running
> again. Is this normal?
>
> If not, what paramteres may I have set wrong to make this happen. The
> crashes have not happened when I've been doing modifications but I've
> still lost modifications done over 24 hours before the crash.
>
> Any tips?

As Steve said, use the checkpoint directive.  Also, is it the machine that 
is unstable, or LDAP that is unstable and crashing?  If it is the latter, 
your BDB cache may not be big enough either.

--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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