Re: configuring mdb maxsize

Paul B. Henson wrote:

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From: Quanah Gibson-Mount [mailto:quanah@zimbra.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2014 8:20 AM

I change the maxsize of my db all the time, while slapd is running,

without

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issue, as long as the maxsize is not attempted to be set to less than

value

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of the actual size of the DB.

Cool; thanks for the data point.

I rather thought the manpage was self-explanatory. Put another way - in the middle of a heavy write load when your server is running at 100% utilization is the wrong time to discover that you need to increase the maxsize. A smart admin picks a very large number at init time (e.g. some percentage of the disk partition size) and never has to worry about it again.