using different db versions in cyrus and sasl
    John Alton Tamplin 
    jtampli at sph.emory.edu
       
    Wed May  7 13:18:23 EDT 2003
    
    
  
Rob Siemborski wrote:
>>Has anyone been able to find out why BerkeleyDB 4.1.x works so badly with
>>Cyrus and perhaps contacted sleepycat?
>>    
>>
>Cyrus does a LOT of enumerations of the keys of a database, which isn't as
>cheap on Berkeley DB as random access.  Skiplist (and flat) are
>substantially faster for enumerations.
>  
>
That explains a performance difference, but it seems like there is a bug 
in 4.1.24/25 at least, in that after running it for a while it suddenly 
becomes unable to open the DB (returning ENOSPC on Solaris 9).  4.0.14 
does not have the same problem (at least not yet).
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John A. Tamplin                               Unix System Administrator
Emory University, School of Public Health     +1 404/727-9931
    
    
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