Database fragility

[Daniel O'Connor]

On 10/09/2010, at 16:59, Bron Gondwana wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 04:52:17PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
>> I recently had some crashes on my home cyrus server and found I had to delete the log files for the DB's by hand :(
>> 
>> [ ... ]
>> 
>> Does anyone have any recommendations for how I can avoid having to do it? :)
> 
> Yes, use skiplist.

OK I'll do some converting.

Hopefully the defaults will change one day.. 2.4?

> Bron ( or find me a tame BDB expert and we'll figure out what Cyrus is
>       doing wrong with its BDB usage )

Never seen such a beast!

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