Re: syncrepl ITS#3262

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:

> --On Monday, December 13, 2004 3:52 PM -0500 Dusty Doris 
> <openldap@mail.doris.cc> wrote:
>
> > Ahh, I see, referring to limits in the slapd.conf database config, 
> > rather
> > than the sizelimit and timelimit in the actual syncrepl config part.  
> > That
> > makes sense.
> >
> > I added this to the FAQ, does this sound right?
> >
> > It is also a good idea to set sizelimit and timelimit to unlimited. This
> > will help to keep your slaves in sync during a large modification.
> > In slapd.conf, add this to your database configuration on the master
> > server
> >
> > limits dn.exact="cn=replica,o=my.org,c=us" size=unlimited time=unlimited
>
>
> It likely applies in the 2.2 synrepl setup.  AFAIK, it doesn't have 
> any relevancy to how syncrepl/syncprov is done in 2.3.
>
> --Quanah

The refresh mode of syncrepl is just a normal LDAP search, so it is 
subject to limits. The persist mode is not.

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