Re: openldap entries lost after reboot

[Enrico Ballarin Dolfin <eballarin@innopark.ch>]

Am Freitag, 3. Dezember 2004 16:28 schrieben Sie:
> 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.

We are writing new entries may be once every 2 days.

How can I force BDB to save the entries in the cache (since the last 
checkpoint) before the server shutdown?

Thanks
Enrico