> Does anyone else have a comment on this? Does turning on berkdb
> increase the performance of the applications that can utilize it, with
> the downside of another package on the system? How about gdbm?
At one point berkdb and gdbm conflicted in cyrus-sasl and I think there
were issues in PHP as well... this is roughly 2-3 years ago. I started
turning berkdb off for most things and never noticed a difference. My
understanding is that they do the same thing.
I'd say using neither is an issue. Apache will start, process config
files, and then use berkdb or gdbm to create a hash of the vhosts for
fast lookups. I'd assume Apache has some less efficient fallback code to
hash configs or it would fail to build without one or the other.
It sounds like I should have one or the other on. I guess I'll go for
berkdb since it's a default and gdbm is not.
- Grant
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