Re: BDB or skiplist?

2004-01-12 Thread Avtar Gill 
Andreas wrote:
I see that the cyrus-imap-2.2 branch already uses skiplist as
the default format. Does this recomendation also apply to the
2.1 branch or was this due to some code change between 2.1 and
2.2?
Here are some notes which might help you in deciding which database
backend to use and why. Recommendations are offered for both 2.1 and
2.2 releases..
http://acs-wiki.andrew.cmu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Cyrus/WhatDatabaseBackend

Re: BDB or skiplist?

2004-01-12 Thread Igor Brezac 

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Andreas wrote:

> I see that the cyrus-imap-2.2 branch already uses skiplist as
> the default format. Does this recomendation also apply to the
> 2.1 branch or was this due to some code change between 2.1 and
> 2.2?
>

Yes.  Keep in mind that skiplist is recommended for mboxlist and seen dbs
only (and annotation in 2.2).

-- 
Igor

Re: BDB or skiplist?

2004-01-12 Thread Patrick Welche 
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 02:05:22PM -0200, Andreas wrote:
> I see that the cyrus-imap-2.2 branch already uses skiplist as
> the default format. Does this recomendation also apply to the
> 2.1 branch or was this due to some code change between 2.1 and
> 2.2?

I think the recommendation applies equally to 2.1 - the reason
the default wasn't change was not to break the "principle of
least surprise" :-)

Cheers,

Patrick

BDB or skiplist?

2004-01-12 Thread Andreas 
I see that the cyrus-imap-2.2 branch already uses skiplist as
the default format. Does this recomendation also apply to the
2.1 branch or was this due to some code change between 2.1 and
2.2?