Re: Recommended backend for Replication Config examples?

["Gavin Henry" <ghenry@suretecsystems.com>]

<quote who="Howard Chu">
> Gavin Henry wrote:
>> Dear All,
>>
>> For the backend type for all the replication examples I'm doing just
>> now,
>> should we use bdb or hdb?
>>
>> I notice that in slapd.conf.default we are using bdb.
>
> I'm in no hurry to deprecate back-bdb, and back-hdb's initial performance
> is
> heavily dependent on priming its IDL cache. It's a tossup - back-bdb with
> no
> subtree renames but less cache sensitivity, or back-hdb with full
> directory
> semantics and more cache sensitivity. I suspect we'll be carrying both for
> a
> long time, because of this tradeoff.

Understood. I'll stick with back-bdb for the examples, unless the backend
is required to be changed for a specific example.

Thanks.

>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Gavin.
>>
>
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