[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#421946: Bug#421946: openldap2.3: build against newer Berkeley DB

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

--On Tuesday, July 24, 2007 2:26 PM -0700 Quanah Gibson-Mount 
<quanah at zimbra.com> wrote:

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> --On July 24, 2007 4:21:33 PM -0500 Albert Chin
> <debian-openldap-devel at mlists.thewrittenword.com> wrote:
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>> 4.6.18 is now available. Would be nice to know if it seems like a
>> worthy replacement for 4.2.
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> Other than the API changing significantly from the BDB 4.6 pre-releases,
> there's at least one serious problem with them.  The openldap developers
> are corresponding with sleepycat to see what can be done about it.


On the downside testing of BDB 4.6.19 finds it to be 2-3 times *slower* 
than BDB 4.2 or BDB 4.5.  While BDB 4.6.3 remains 25% faster than BDB 4.2. 
Correspondance with sleepycat to figure out what happened continues...

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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