Re: log files and recovery

On Thursday 04 June 2009 17:24:48 mukim pathan wrote:

Hi all,

I am unable to understand the answers for following question which i got on net. This might be naive questions but I really need to know the answers.

1. why does ldap write log files and what are its content?

To ensure that changes aren't lost, while getting decent performance. The same reason any database has transaction logs.

2. why does ldap go through all log files during recovery?

Most likely because you didn't configure checkpointing, see the 'checkpoint' directive in 'man slapd-bdb' and 'man slapd-hdb'.

Regards, Buchan