On Sunday 22 October 2006 17:14, Grant wrote: > > > 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.
In the amd64-2006+ and x86-2005.1+ profiles both berkdb and gdbm are on by default. This leaves the choice to the applications. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
