competition

[Kenneth Marshall]

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:48:49PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> 
> On 22/09/2010, at 22:33, Kenneth Marshall wrote:
> >> On a bad shutdown it requires admin intervention very frequently which is pretty tedious.
> >> 
> >> And yes, upgrading it is also a PITA.
> >> 
> > 
> > That is why we moved to skiplist. The server would require manual
> > intervention to even restart after certain types of system events.
> > It is hard to explain why mail was unavailable for 30+mins. when
> > the server rebooted in 2mins. BDB would need to be much, much
> > easier to manage and be more robust for us to use.
> 
> Yep, I plan to migrate to skiplist some day :)
> 
> Now if only I could use skiplist with openldap ;)
> 
Sadly, OpenLDAP does need the performance of BDB.

Cheers,
Ken