Re: Log files building up with large group

[Steve Smith <ssmith@atlassian.com>]

This is the standard RHEL 5.2 build:

openldap-2.3.27-8.el5_1.3

It looks like this RPM doesn't ship with checkpointing enabled, I'll try 
that and see how it fares.

Thanks,
Steve

Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> --On June 26, 2008 4:45:44 PM +1000 Steve Smith <ssmith@atlassian.com> 
> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have directory with a group with ~220,000 users in it.  This group is
> > frequently updated (several times an hour).  This appears to be causing
> > the BDB transaction logs to grow very large; over the course of a day
> > they grow to about 36GB.  These all appear to be active; neither
> > 'slapd_db_archive -d' or DB_LOG_AUTOREMOVE has any effect.
> >
> > Is there anything that can be done about this or is this an unavoidable
> > side-effect of the transaction system?
>
> What version of BDB are you using?  Have you configured a checkpoint in 
> slapd.conf?  What version of OpenLDAP are you using?
>
> There were some bugs in some versions of BDB and I think some version of 
> OpenLDAP that failed to properly checkpoint, causing the issue you are 
> seeing.  A properly patched version of BDB and a current release of 
> OpenLDAP should certainly not have this problem.
>
> --Quanah
>
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>
> Quanah Gibson-Mount
> Principal Software Engineer
> Zimbra, Inc
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