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

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

--On Thursday, May 31, 2007 5:22 PM -0700 Steve Langasek 
<vorlon at debian.org> wrote:

> On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 05:14:10PM -0700, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
>> --On Thursday, May 31, 2007 5:08 PM -0700 Steve Langasek
>> <vorlon at debian.org> wrote:
>
>> > Anyway, if there are problems, better that they be detected at the
>> > beginning of the release cycle when it's easier to get any upstream bdb
>> > problems fixed in time for lenny.
>
>> My hope is 4.6 will be out long before lenny.  It is the first release
>> since BDB 4.2 that I've seen actually outperform 4.2 across the board.
>> 4.4  & 4.5 were both noticeably slower in read & write tests.
>
> Is performance the only problem with 4.4 and 4.5 for OpenLDAP?  If so, I
> think the BDB maintainers would be well within their rights to ask for
> removal of 4.2 from unstable anyway, even if 4.6 weren't on the horizon.

Well, if high performance is a critical factor to an LDAP service, this is 
a severe issue.  Yes, that is the only problem I've encountered with 4.4 
and 4.5.  Is it enough of an issue I would avoid it? Yes, it is.  What 
Debian and its BDB maintainers choose to do about it depends, I guess, on 
whether or not they understand why that would be an issue for users or if 
it matters so much to them.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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