Re: BDB memory cache problem

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Ralf Haferkamp wrote:

> On Friday 03 December 2004 16:37, Howard Chu wrote:
>  
>
> > Agreed. After the discussion on that email thread died out we (Symas)
> > went ahead and developed a locking system of our own that detects
> > unclean shutdowns and handles recovery automatically. It seemed there
> > was no interest from Sleepycat or anyone else so we have kept this as a
> > proprietary feature of Connexitor Directory Services.
> >    
>
> I am interested in this feature. How did you implement it?
>
>  
The above-referenced thread already described the basics of the approach
http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-devel/200309/msg00014.html

although our current implementation is not as described in that specific 
message. We've packaged the feature into a simple library that back-bdb 
calls at startup and shutdown, so the code impact is tiny.

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