Re: RH/FC openldap stability (was RE: sasl UID mapping)

[Paul Jakma <paul@clubi.ie>]

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Paul Jakma wrote:

> configured to use gdbm as its db backend. It appeared to be horribly
> unreliable for any kind of usage other than read-only: updates were
> unreliable at best, non-functional effectively, apparently due to
> concurrency issues in gdbm. The fix is to edit and recompile the RH
> rpms to use db3 rather than gdbm. Openldap has been working reliably
> on 7 with db3 as backend for over a year,

Err.. just to make something clear, that's not to imply that DB3 is
suitable for setups that have a significant update load, it isnt.  
Merely for low update loads, it suffices (where gdbm doesnt).

regards,
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