On Wednesday 26 October 2005 18:12, Russell Howe wrote:
> Paul Heinlein wrote:
> > At the risk of being somewhat off-topic, I'll add that the same is true
> > of SQLite. In SQLite 2.8, setting the default_synchronous flag to OFF
> > will speed things up markedly:
> >
> > echo 'PRAGMA default_synchronous=0;' | sqlite bacula.db
>
> I posted about this previously:
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.bacula.user/16853/match=pragma
>
> Looks like they just removed the option to default all databases to
> non-synchronous operation in SQLite 3.0, requiring you to manually set
> your databases to be asynchronous. A good decision, I would say.
>
> I think the 'default_synchronous' setting will only apply to databases
> when they're created (or, to put it another way, changing it will not
> affect any existing databases).
>
> Since you're taking backups of the database, and you can restore the
> catalog by using bscan, I don't see the need for synchronous operation,
> unless you absolutely cannot have your database server down for the time
> it would take to restore the catalog in the event of a power failure or
> somesuch.
>
> I'll be turning it off tonight, to see what difference it makes to
> performance...
The default for Bacula 1.37 SQLite is:
PRAGMA default_synchronous = OFF;
which I implemented shortly after Russell's original post. Thanks Russell.
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