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RE: HDB Tuning



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Buchan Milne [mailto:bgmilne@staff.telkomsa.net]
> Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 12:17 AM
> 
> Is there any reason you didn't include BDB as well ?

We have a reasonably high write component in our system so we thought we'd go straight for HDB.  From my fairly limited reading, I get the impression that HDB >= BDB, although I've seen nothing criticising HDB comparative to BDB.  Is it something we should also consider? For what reasons?

> How many entries in the database, or how large is it (du *.bdb) ?

1.3GB, 800k entries in one database.  No glue or other overlays.

> I think you need (more?) idlcache, configured in slapd.conf inside the
> database. And, if you don't have any, you also need a cachesize configured
> (in the same place). See the man page for slapd-hdb (or slapd-bdb). IIRC
> the
> guideline for idlcache on hdb is approx three times the cachesize (which
> you
> will have to decide on).

Bingo!  Adding the idlcachesize made a world of difference, thanks!  I didn't check that man page so never realised the index caching config directive had changed.  I've followed the 3x rule and it's super-speedy now.

Thanks Buchan