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Re: caching magic (was: How to trace activity on Window platform ?)
AFAIR, set_cachesize is a DB_CONFIG directive that sets the cache size in
bytes (and multiples) at the db2 layer; cachesize is a slapd.conf
directive sets the number of entries (not bytes) that are cached by the
backend. They're totally unrelated.
p.
> uh oh
> this is beginning to seriously confuse me :)
>
> from the set_cachesize doc on sleepycat (
> http://www.sleepycat.com/docs/api_c/db_set_cachesize.html)
> I learned that ".. if ncache is 0 or 1, the cache will be allocated
> contiguously in memory."
>
> So I figure that if, for performance reasons, I want to put my db entirely
> in memory, I have two options
> 1) measure the size of the db (and indices) on the file system. use the
> set_cachesize directive in DB_CONFIG with a larger size and ncache set to
> 0 or 1 (and db_recover after the changes to DB_CONFIG)
> 2) measure the number of entries in the db. use the cachesize directive in
> slapd.conf to set it to something larger
>
> I understand that 1) would be a server-wide configuration and 2) is a
> database specific configuration (one server can have many databases)
>
> But my questions:
>
> - in case my server only has one database: are 1) and 2) equivalent? i.e.
> can I chose one of either cachsize or set_cachesize and ignore the other?
> - if i set both, what are the effects or the caveats?
> - what does shm_key do again?
> - why does setting shm_key fail on my RH enterprise 3.0 box (I tried
> different values, the debug error is always something like shmget: key: 9:
> unable to create shared system memory region: Invalid argument) but not on
> my Solaris 8 box (both have 2GB of memory, both are configured identically
> with set_cachesize 0 214748365 0 in DB_CONFIG)?
>
> thanks for any enlightnment
> -frank
>
>
> --On Tuesday, June 15, 2004 11:16 AM +0200 Frank Hoffsummer
> <frank.hoffsummer@svt.se> wrote:
>
>> thanks quanah for your answers
>>
>>
>> so setting set_cachesize in DB_CONFIG to something larger than the size
>> of my DBs and then
>> setting shm_key to something positive in slapd.conf will keep the entire
>> DB in memory?
>>
>> the relation between shm_key and set_cachesize isnt clear to me.....
>
> shm_key tells Slapd what shared memory key to use on the system. (X)
>
> set_cachesize tells BDB how large of a cache to create. (Y)
>
> The two parameters together will try to create a shared memory segment
> with memory key X of size Y
>
> --Quanah
>
>
> --
> Quanah Gibson-Mount
> Principal Software Developer
> ITSS/Shared Services
> Stanford University
> GnuPG Public Key: http://www.stanford.edu/~quanah/pgp.html
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