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List:       openldap-technical
Subject:    Re: BDB: Converting mmapped files to shared memory: Need slap{cat,add}?
From:       Nick Urbanik <nick.urbanik () optusnet ! com ! au>
Date:       2012-08-27 7:53:49
Message-ID: 20120827075349.GB3587 () nick ! optusnet ! com ! au
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Dear Quanah and Howard,

Thank you both very much for your help.

On 27/08/12 00:40 -0700, Howard Chu wrote:
>Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
>> --On Monday, August 27, 2012 9:42 AM +1000 Nick Urbanik
>> <nick.urbanik(a)optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Folks,
>>>
>>> I have a large production 2.4.32 LDAP server slaving many trees.  I
>>> set it up with memory-mapped files, and want to change it to use
>>> shared memory instead, since shared memory BDB seems to work better
>>> after watching the other servers that have been upgraded 2.3 => 2.4.32
>>> with shared memory.
>>>
>>> To convert this, do I need to slapcat the directories and restore them
>>> after the configuration change with slapadd, or is it sufficient to
>>> use db_recover in each LDAP database after changing the configuration
>>> while slapd is stopped?
>>
>> All you have to do is modify slapd.conf/cn=config to use a shared memory
>> key.  BDB should take care of the rest.  There is definitely no need to
>> slapcat/slapadd the DB.  A shared memory key changes where BDB stores its
>> cache, not where the database is stored, or how slapd interfaces with BDB.
>
>If using slapd.conf, you need to manually do a db_recover to make the change
>take effect.

Thank you, that is what I did, since I had also changed the cache size
in DB_CONFIG, and it all works swimmingly!  Thank you.
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