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Re: caching magic

tor, 17.06.2004 kl. 22.47 skrev Howard Chu:

> >>>From my slapd.conf:
> >>
> >>database    bdb
> >>shm_key     5
> 
> > This can go in DB_CONFIG:
> > http://www.sleepycat.com/docs/api_c/env_set_shm_key.html
> 
> No, that alone is not enough. If it were enough by itself, I would never 
> have added this code to back-bdb. You also need to set the DB_SYSTEM_MEM 
> flag when creating the environment, and this flag cannot be set in 
> DB_CONFIG. Using the shm_key keyword tells back-bdb the key *and* tells 
> it to set the flag when creating the environment.

Could you please indicate where setting DB_SYSTEM_MEM and any other
similar environment parameters is documented? Wish to read up on it :)

--Tonni

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