Re: OpenLDAP and BIG mail environments

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

--On Thursday, February 12, 2004 3:05 PM -0600 Micah Anderson 
<micah@riseup.net> wrote:

> > > files form the /var partition since they are probably all cached in
> > > memory anyways?
> >
> > The main thing in 2.1 to think about, disk wise, is that your BDB log
> > files  should be kept on a separate disk from your DB itself.  We have 2
> > drives,  and /db is the only partition on the second drive.
> > /var/log/bdb is located  on the first drive.

I mainly do this to decrease the amount of time it takes to slapadd a 
database.  It can significantly drop the DB load time if you need to 
restore the DB from LDIF.

> Thanks for your configuration advice, it helps to compare other's
> setups and what they have been able to do with it.

Glad to note it. :)

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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Stanford University
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