Re: Disabling transaction logging for slapadd (2.1.25, bdb)

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

--On Wednesday, January 28, 2004 6:42 PM +0200 Buchan Milne 
<bgmilne@obsidian.co.za> wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
>
> > --On Wednesday, January 28, 2004 5:52 PM +0200 Buchan Milne
> > <bgmilne@obsidian.co.za> wrote:
> >
> > >> set_flag DB_TXN_NOT_DURABLE
> >
> > I think this is a BDB 4.2.52 option, and not 4.1.25, but I am not
> > certain.  The suggested BDB version to run right now is BDB-4.2.52 plus
> > patch  (4.2.52.1).  You can get the patch from the sleepycat website.
>
> Yup, 4.2.52.1 will be in my next build ...
>
> But, with some tuning options this is performing oK, but I have >2GB of
> transaction logs now ...

You can set up a script to delete the unnecessary ones.  We run this 
periodically out of cron:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
chdir("/var/log/bdb");
@files=`/usr/local/bin/db_archive`;
foreach $file (@files) {
 chomp($file);
 unlink($file);
}


--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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