On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Henning Brauer wrote:

> * Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-02-03 20:31]:
> > I am now running both my backend and database off of dbd
> > backend         bdb
> > database        bdb
>
> bdb isa unfortunately so full of bugs that you might want to pick
> another backend.
>

Really!? I am suprised to hear this. BDB is the backend recommended by
opendlap. I have been using it on a LDAP db with >200,000 records
for almost a year without any problem. This was an upgrade from gdbm,
which I had problems. The db files in gdbm would grow and become unstable
if I did not re-index every few months -- after re-indexing, the gdbm
files would be 30-50% smaller than the previous ones, but contain the
exact same number of entries. So far, I have not seen this problem with
bdb. Using bdb does take a bit more work, as there are many options to
configure, and the docs are a bit sketchy.

Andreas

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