Performance question...

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Etienne Goyer wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 04:22:48PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Etienne Goyer wrote:
> > > > >  4. A properly configured Berkeley DB environment (although for some
> > > > >      reason, Cyrus seems to actually survive well without any config,
> > > > >      maybe the CMU crew override the defaults with something sane in
> > > > >      the bdb backend code. If you try the same with OpenLDAP, your 
> > > > server
> > > > >      will die an horrible death).
> > > > 
> > > > how configure this ? is a conf or compile something ? i have a default 
> > > > cyrus with virtual users, and ldap with a backend 
> > > 
> > > This is something I would *love* to hear about because I am suffering
> > > from database corruption myself.  I guess the Sleepy Cat documentation
> > > could be a good place to look, but where does a total db3 newbie start ? 
> > 
> > First, you need DB4.2 if you have anything SMP or multithreaded :)
> 
> Ok, this is getting interesting.  Are there known with db3 on SMP
> system?  We use the stock db3 rpm from RedHat 7.3 (3.3.11) on an SMP
> machine, and we seem to have database corruption problem on
> mailboxes.db.  I'll be searching Google, but in the meantime if you have
> pointer to this problem or can confirm that db3 + SMP == corruption, I'd
> like to hear about it.

db 3.2 is safe. I don't know about 3.3.  4.0 and 4.1 are a NO GO for SMP.

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  Henrique Holschuh
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