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Re: OpenLDAP 2.3.38 and Berkeley DB 4.6.19
> And for anyone curious - you can read ITS#3851
> http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Development?id=3851 for the
> background on
> the problems in BerkeleyDB's memory allocator. While there was a fair
> amount of
> debate as to whether Jong's proposed solution was of any benefit, it was
> pretty
> clear that the existing code in BerkeleyDB could be improved. But the
> changes
> in the memory allocator may not visibly affect you if you're running a
> small-to-medium sized database. It's only apparent when the total volume
> of
> data is much larger than the BerkeleyDB cache, because that's the
> condition
> that leads to memory fragmentation, and it's the fragmentation that causes
> the
> allocator's performance to degrade.
>
>
> To sum up - if you're already using BDB 4.5.20 with OpenLDAP 2.3 and the
> performance is acceptable, I wouldn't be in any hurry to upgrade to BDB
> 4.6.
> Releases 4.6.18 and 4.6.19 are incompatible with OpenLDAP 2.3. BDB 4.6.1
> is a
> drop-in replacement for 4.5.20 though.
So currently the recommended BDB version to use with 2.3 is either 4.5.20
or 4.6.1 (or good old 4.2.52 + patches).
Ok, thanks.