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From: Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Do you leave it on? USE="berkdb"
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 15:18:59
Message-Id: 49bf44f10610220814h7cae6cf0v46bfa3f03134860b@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Do you leave it on? USE="berkdb" by kashani
1 > > Does anyone else have a comment on this? Does turning on berkdb
2 > > increase the performance of the applications that can utilize it, with
3 > > the downside of another package on the system? How about gdbm?
4 >
5 > At one point berkdb and gdbm conflicted in cyrus-sasl and I think there
6 > were issues in PHP as well... this is roughly 2-3 years ago. I started
7 > turning berkdb off for most things and never noticed a difference. My
8 > understanding is that they do the same thing.
9 >
10 > I'd say using neither is an issue. Apache will start, process config
11 > files, and then use berkdb or gdbm to create a hash of the vhosts for
12 > fast lookups. I'd assume Apache has some less efficient fallback code to
13 > hash configs or it would fail to build without one or the other.
14
15 It sounds like I should have one or the other on. I guess I'll go for
16 berkdb since it's a default and gdbm is not.
17
18 - Grant
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[gentoo-user] Re: Do you leave it on? USE="berkdb" Harm Geerts <harmgeerts@××××.nl>