Re: Updates not happening immediately?

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Dieter Kluenter wrote:
> Gary LaVoy <glavoy@apple.com> writes:
> > So when I have openldap running and add a bunch of records, and try to
> > immediately search for them they aren't always there. If I stop slapd
> > and restart it, they are.
> >
> > So I am guessing I have something set that is not committing these
> > transactions immediately and by restarting the server I am pushing
> > them in?
> >
> > What would cause this?

> You should allow slapd to finish write operations. Depending on the
> number of entries, server load, hardware, location of database and
> logfiles, database configuration and so on, that may take a few
> minutes.

This is nonsense. back-bdb is transactional; writes are guaranteed to 
have completed before slapd returns a response to a client request.

But there were some nasty back-bdb caching bugs in 2.1.22. It's not a 
good idea to spend any time on an old release when the changelog from 
back then to the current one is so long.
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