Re: Deadlocks when writing in parallell (two processes)

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>]

--On Tuesday, April 01, 2008 1:43 PM +0200 Stelios Grigoriadis 
<stelios.xx.grigoriadis@ericsson.com> wrote:


> I see in the code that a key (the same it seems to be) is repeatedly
> written, and a comment is stating that
> /* Don't worry if it's already there */ (line 862 in
> servers/slapd/back-bdb/idl.c).
>
> Is this to be expected or have we done something wrong?

It is to be expected.

In testing we did @ Zimbra, we found it to be substantially slower to do 
writes in parallel than to just serialize the writes.  I suggest you rework 
your process. ;)

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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