Re: LDAP transactions

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>]

--On Wednesday, April 23, 2008 4:00 PM -0700 Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com> 
wrote:

> I guess another approach would just be to have backglue fully serialize
> all transactions; if only one is outstanding at any time there can be no
> deadlocks.
>
> This brings up a question about whether slapd in general should fully
> serialize them. I was thinking, at the least, that we should only allow
> one active transaction per connection, though that was mainly a matter of
> convenience. Thoughts?


Syncrepl was untenable with non-serialized updates (which moving to 
delta-syncrepl helped with).  Even in a standalone setup, I find that 
serializing the update process provides faster write times (at least with 
back-(bh)db) than allowing multiple update threads.

--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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