--On September 29, 2008 9:19:00 PM +0530 Nikhil Mishra ls.niks@gmail.com wrote:

hello all ,

While deleting the entries from openldap- Database I see that there is no change in the file size . I did an external checkpoint using db_checkpoint -1 and db_archive -d . The changes are reflected fro an add operation but it is not reflected for delete .

I have a requirement where I need to externally poll the size of DB for openldap . But delete operation is not making any changes to actual DB file size . I am not sure if its a BDB limitation or something to do with the way openldap is being configured .

Please help in understanding .

This is fairly common with all databases -- Deleted data is marked, but the space is not recovered without reloading the DB. What happens is the next time you add a new entry, that region is reused for the new entry, so the DB also won't grow until you exceed what you've deleted.

--Quanah

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