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Re: slapd and checkpoint
man slapd-bdb
Today at 1:01pm, Greg Matthews wrote:
> where is the checkpoint directive documented? I cant find it in the man
> pages or the admin guide, what is the syntax, should it be in the
> database section, or should I use db_checkpoint in DB_CONFIG?
>
> GREG
>
>
> On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 16:21, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> > slapd by default checkpoints when it is stopped. However, if it crashes it
> > won't checkpoint. I highly suggest using the "checkpoint" directive in
> > slapd.conf to have it periodically checkpoint the database while it is
> > running, so that in the case of a crash, slapd has been recently
> > checkpointed. It also speeds up shutdown time, as there is less for slapd
> > to checkpoint at that time. Running db_recover at startup can have other
> > issues (it used to be the standard practice in slapd, but that was later
> > removed).
> >
> > --Quanah
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