Re: Frequent BDB corruption...

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

--On Wednesday, August 24, 2005 8:15 PM +0530 Saket Sathe 
<saket@cc.iitb.ac.in> wrote:

> Hi All,
> I am using Single Master (2.3.4), 5 Slaves (2.2.26) with syncrepl, all
> using BDB 4.5.2 + four patches.
>
> I am facing a lot of problems with BDB. I frequently get "PANIC" messages
> in the logs and I simply have to rebuild the database.
> I have already looked at FAQ-O-Matic and tuned the BDB cache.
>
> Will using MySQL instead of BDB help ? I have about 15K entries in by
> database.
> How would MySQL possibly perform ?

MySQL would generally be very slow.

You probably want to upgrade to OpenLDAP 2.3.6 for your master.  OpenLDAP 
2.3.4's auto-recovery system had some bugs in it.  You don't say which 
system(s) you are seeing the errors on.  Is it only the master?  All of 
your systems? etc.  BDB 4.2.52+patches tends to be quite stable in and of 
itself.


--Quanah


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