On 22/09/2010, at 22:17, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 14:44 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: >> On Wednesday 22 September 2010 13:47:26 Jeffrey T Eaton wrote: >> <snipped> >> I am probably missing some info here, but.... >>> And, as Bron has said, there's something wrong with the way Cyrus uses BDB. >>> I've never been able to understand BDB well enough to figure it out >>> myself, nor have I ever found anyone who can help. For what its worth, I >>> solved the problem by not using BDB at all on the Cyrus systems I used. >> If it is possible to not use BDB, and BDB causes problems with upgrades, why >> is BDB still used then? > > BDB is wicked fast and scales well. At least that is the typical > argument in defense of BDB. And given the stellar performance one sees > from OpenLDAP I'm prone to believing it. I'm not sure it's Cyrus, I see issues with OpenLDAP and BDB too. On a bad shutdown it requires admin intervention very frequently which is pretty tedious. And yes, upgrading it is also a PITA. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
