Is using Berkeley DB 4.0.14 recommended?

[Rob Siemborski]

On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Aidan Evans wrote:

>   What Berkeley DB is CMU using?  I assume this is on Solaris, so it may
> not be safe to compare to use on Linux.  Whatever version it is, it
> certainly sounds as though it works for CMU.

4.0.14, but we're only using it for the TLS cache and the deliver.db.

>   My experience with DB 4.0.14 on RedHat Linux 7.2 is two instances of
> complete failure of deliver.db and tls_sessions.db (and consequently all
> Sieve processing) when the number of lockers reached 50,000, both instances
> after about a week to ten days up time.  I expect a third failure if I let
> the number of lockers get that high again.

I don't think I've ever seen numbers that high, so I can't comment.

-Rob

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