Re: openldap entries lost after reboot

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Enrico Ballarin Dolfin wrote:

> Hi
>
> Every time that we reboot our server (openldap2 2.2.6 on SuSE 9.1) the last 2 
> or 3 entries get lost.
>
> Our ldap server is at the moment very small: we have only 50-60 entries.
>
> The configuration of the backend database contains also these lines:
>
> database        bdb
> checkpoint      1024    5
> cachesize       10000
>
> The checkpoint command should store in the database the cache content every 5 
> minutes. This seems not to happen. The last 2 or 3 entries get lost after 
> reboot, also if they has been entered 2 days before the reboot!
>  
Checkpointing is only done during a write operation. After a write is 
completed, the BDB library checks to see if it has been more than X 
minutes since the last checkpoint. But it does not have a periodic timer 
that actually checkpoints every X minutes.

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