Performance question...

[Phil Brutsche]

Etienne Goyer wrote:

>>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.

It's probably related to why hmh uses skiplist for mailboxes.db in his 
Debian packages of Cyrus 2.1, and why Rob Siemborski recommends skiplist 
for the mailbox and seen state databases, as he notes in the Wiki:

http://acs-wiki.andrew.cmu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Cyrus/WhatDatabaseBackend

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Phil Brutsche
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