Skiplist / best practice for 2.1 branch

[Rob Siemborski]

On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Tim Pushor wrote:

> I have done some research on the skiplist algorithm, but am wondering
> about the cyrus implementation. Is it stable?

I didn't know anyone else was implementing a persistant skiplist.  Our
implementation is stable (and I thought "proprietary").

> What is the current recommended/best practice for configuring 2.1.10?
> Which components should be DB as compared to skiplist?

This is in the mailing list about 8 times, but..

> duplicate? mboxlist? seen? subs? tls?
db3_nosync, skiplist, skiplist, flat, db3_nosync

> I definately favor reliability over performance.

That should give it to you.

-Rob

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