1 .TH SLAPD-BDB 5 "RELEASEDATE" "OpenLDAP LDVERSION"
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6 slapd-bdb \- BDB backend to slapd
12 is the recommended backend for a normal slapd database.
13 However, it takes more care than with the LDBM backend to configure
15 It uses the Sleepycat Berkeley DB (BDB) package to store data.
16 It makes extensive use of indexing and caching to speed data access.
18 It is noted that these options are intended to complement
19 Berkeley DB configuration options set in the environment's
21 file. See Berkeley DB documentation for details on
23 configuration options.
24 Where there is overlap, settings in
30 options apply to the BDB backend database.
31 That is, they must follow a "database bdb" line and come before any
32 subsequent "backend" or "database" lines.
33 Other database options are described in the
37 .B cachesize <integer>
38 Specify the size in entries of the in-memory cache maintained
39 by the BDB backend database instance.
40 The default is 1000 entries.
42 .B checkpoint <kbyte> <min>
43 Specify the frequency for checkpointing the database transaction log.
44 A checkpoint operation flushes the database buffers to disk and writes
45 a checkpoint record in the log.
46 The checkpoint will occur if either <kbyte> data has been written or
47 <min> minutes have passed since the last checkpoint.
48 Both arguments default to zero, in which case they are ignored.
49 See the Berkeley DB reference guide for more details.
52 Specify that on-disk database contents should not be immediately
53 synchronized with in memory changes.
54 Enabling this option may improve performance at the expense of data
56 See the Berkeley DB reference guide for more details.
58 .B directory <directory>
59 Specify the directory where the BDB files containing this database and
60 associated indexes live.
61 A separate directory must be specified for each database.
63 .BR LOCALSTATEDIR/openldap-data .
66 Allow reads of modified but not yet committed data.
67 Usually transactions are isolated to prevent other operations from
68 accessing uncommitted data.
69 This option may improve performance, but may also return inconsistent
70 results if the data comes from a transaction that is later aborted.
71 In this case, the modified data is discarded and a subsequent search
72 will return a different result.
74 .B idlcachesize <integer>
75 Specify the size of the in-memory index cache, in index slots. The
76 default is zero. A larger value will speed up frequent searches of
80 index {<attrlist>|default} [pres,eq,approx,sub,<special>]
81 Specify the indexes to maintain for the given attribute (or
83 Some attributes only support a subset of indexes.
84 If only an <attr> is given, the indices specified for \fBdefault\fR
86 Note that setting a default does not imply that all attributes will be
89 A number of special index parameters may be specified.
92 can be decomposed into
99 may be specified to disallow use of this index by language subtypes.
102 may be specified to disallow use of this index by named subtypes.
103 Note: changing index settings requires rebuilding indices, see
106 .B lockdetect {oldest|youngest|fewest|random|default}
107 Specify which transaction to abort when a deadlock is detected.
108 The default is the same as
112 Specify the file protection mode that newly created database
113 index files should have.
116 .B searchstack <depth>
117 Specify the depth of the stack used for search filter evaluation.
118 Search filters are evaluated on a stack to accommodate nested AND / OR
119 clauses. An individual stack is assigned to each server thread.
120 The depth of the stack determines how complex a filter can be
121 evaluated without requiring any additional memory allocation. Filters that
122 are nested deeper than the search stack depth will cause a separate
123 stack to be allocated for that particular search operation. These
124 allocations can have a major negative impact on server performance,
125 but specifying too much stack will also consume a great deal of memory.
126 Each search stack uses 512K bytes per level. The default stack depth
127 is 16, thus 8MB per thread is used.
130 Specify a key for a shared memory BDB environment. By default the
131 BDB environment uses memory mapped files. If a non-zero value is
132 specified, it will be used as the key to identify a shared memory
133 region that will house the environment.
135 .B sessionlog <sid> <limit>
136 Specify a session log store for the syncrepl replication provider
137 server. The session log store contains information on the entries that
138 have been scoped out of the provider replication content identified by
140 The number of entries in the session log store is limited by
142 Excessive entries are removed from the store in the FIFO order.
147 are non-negative integers.
149 has no more than three decimal digits.
150 Refer to the "OpenLDAP Administrator's Guide" for detailed information
151 on setting up a replicated slapd directory service using the syncrepl
152 replication engine and the session log store.
157 default slapd configuration file
160 Berkeley DB configuration file
167 Berkeley DB documentation.
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