effect of changing database backends

[Bojan Zdrnja]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu 
> [mailto:owner-info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu] On Behalf Of twk
> Sent: Wednesday, 28 May 2003 3:25 a.m.
> To: info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> Subject: effect of changing database backends
> 
> 
> Excuse me if these are obvious questions....we are currently dealing 
> with some loading issues and are investigating ways to bring 
> the load down.
> 
> - On our 2.0.16 Cyrus servers, all the database backends are DB3. What 
> sort of improvement could we see if we convert to the skiplist backend? 
> Should we expedite this change?

I had a same problem with database backends. Basically with very high number
of requests load went pretty high on box.
Check the following message about recommended database formats:

http://asg.web.cmu.edu/archive/message.php?mailbox=archive.cyrus-sasl&msg=23
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Best regards,

Bojan Zdrnja