Re: Garbage entries with intense use

[Rafa <rafael.cano.ext@juntadeandalucia.es>]

The environment was set up by other person, so I can't say much.
We noticed the problem making backups with tar, and recently I have seen 
this again. Althoung I deleted some big branches, my tar was some mb 
bigger than the one I made a week before. And the .tgz file included all 
the .dbb files in the folder.

Howard Chu wrote:

> Rafa wrote:
>
> > I have noticed that when I do massive updates on my OpenLdap my db 
> > size increases astonishingly, so I have to take an ldif and create 
> > from scratch periodically. Obvioulsy a garbage-entries problem, but 
> > seems to be very frequent. I supose it is a db problem, not an ldap 
> > problem (in that case, it would have been fixed yet ;)). I don't know 
> > exactly wich db uses my server, but it uses .dbb extensions in its 
> > files.
> > Do you know where is the problem exactly? If the cause is in the db 
> > engine, can you recommend me a better one?
>
>
> You didn't mention the version numbers of anything you're currently 
> using. The best available DB engine at the moment is Berkeley DB 
> 4.2.52(+2 patches). Note that database files tend to be sparse, and 
> generally don't actually use as much disk space as the size in their 
> directory listing would indicate, so you may be reacting to something 
> that isn't a real problem.