Re: my searchs doesn't use indexes

["Isaac Cruz Ballesteros" <icruz@sgi.es>]

> If you're running ldap as a non-root user (it's a good thing), make sure
> all the .ldbm files are owned by that user.

slapd as root :-) It's in a private network anyway

> I have had index corruption problems with OpenLDAP and GDBM.  Running
> slapindex would not fix the problem.  The problems didn't go away until
> I switched to Berkeley DB 3.3.11 as the backend database.
>
> My experience is that GDBM files also tend to get very large very fast
> if you do lots of updates.  Reloading the database (stop ldap; slapcat >
> foo.ldif; slapadd -c < foo.ldif; chown -R <ldap user> /var/lib/ldap;
> start ldap) will shrink the files again on a temporary basis.  Berkeley
> DB does not have this problem.

OK, so it seems I must update to Berkeley DB... Which version should I use?
version 4.0.14 is available in www.sleepycat.com, but is it reliable enough to use
in a production system?
Also, which version of OpenLDAP should I use? What type of backend in slapd.conf,
ldbm or bdb?

> Also, GDBM can't handle individual files larger than 2GB.  Updates that
> would increase the file size past that limit return I/O errors and crash
> the slapd process.  Hopefully you run multithreaded so this will not
> immediately terminate all LDAP service.  If your id2entry.ldbm is
> getting close to 2GB, you might want to take steps to avoid this problem
> before it happens to you.

Then it's more urgent I have thought, id2entry.gdbm size is 2119467956 (30 MB
left)...

Thanks very much for the help,
Isaac