RE: openldap entries lost after reboot

["Fortin, John {PBG}" <John.Fortin@pepsi.com>]

Look up the db_checkpoint command for bdb.  It can run in daemon mode or run
via something like cron.

http://www.sleepycat.com/docs/utility/db_checkpoint.html

--John

John Fortin
PBG Middleware and Web Services
(914) 767-7844


>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org 
>[mailto:owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org] On Behalf Of 
>Enrico Ballarin Dolfin
>Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 10:59 AM
>To: Howard Chu
>Cc: openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
>Subject: Re: openldap entries lost after reboot
>
>
>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
>