Re: slapd stability problems with add/change operations

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

--On Thursday, August 11, 2005 3:23 PM +0200 vadim 
<vadim.tarassov@swissonline.ch> wrote:

> Hallo Adrian,
>
> There were a number of patches published for BDB 4.2.52. Without these
> patches berkeley env starts to hang if cachesize (that's what you set in
> DB_CONFIG) is too small.
>
> Although people here do not suggest to use BDB 4.3.X, I do use it and
> don't have any headaches.
>
> Try to do following: increase value of set_cachesize in DB_CONFIG to
> about half of all your *.bdb files or otherwise what your system allows,
> but don't leave it default.
>
> Best regards, vadim tarassov.

Given the traffic about BDB 4.3 on the Sleepycat newsgroup, you are very 
brave. ;)

The issues I hit in 4.3.21 and 4.3.27 didn't generally manifest until you 
used a fairly large database, however.  Still, the problems other people 
continue to report using various applications other than OpenLDAP leave me 
leery of 4.3.

--Quanah

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