Re: back-bdb DB_RECOVER and soft restart

[Lars Uffmann <lu@mediaways.net>]

On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 18:39, Michael Ströder wrote:
> Luke Howard wrote:
>  >>That's what back-bdb used to do, in its infancy. It turned out to cause
>  >>slapd startup to be very slow.
>  >
>  > Hmm, I thought Sun ONE did this. Does anyone know what they do? They also
>  > use Sleepycat AFAIK...
> 
> ..and IMHO Sun ONE DS *is* slow on startup...

The time for recovery depends on how often you checkpoint your database
during normal operation. Often you will find hundreds od megabytes of
BDB logfiles, specially with netscape/iPlanet. Never seen a SunONE
server, though.

Lars