On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Howard Chu <h...@symas.com> wrote: > > I will note that if you are going to use slowaris, I highly advise you set >> a memory key rather than using on disk cache for BDB if your DB is any >> size >> over about 4 GB. Other than that, you'll generally just have to deal with >> the fact it will be significantly slower than Linux. >> > > > Actually, you should always use a shared memory key on Solaris. Using > mmap'd files is just too slow on that OS. > > Incidentlly, What is the uniqueness of a shared memory key, is it unique amoung all instances on a single server ?
I have personally only ever needed a shared memory key on one of a group of ldap servers. But i noticed that the bdb logs are not written to disk when shared memory is configured, is this a good or bad thing ? If the power is lost, without bdb logs, could this leave bdb in an unrecoverable state ? Cheers Brett
