Re: db4 backend alternative

2005-02-28 Thread Henk . Roose
Mark Hannessen wrote: > On Monday 20 December 2004 23:25, you wrote: > > Hi Mark, > > > > I'm looking for information as to how to convert from BDB4 to skiplist. > > well, I don't have any real info or tools... I used cvt_cyrusdb to convert my mailboxes.db and per-user .seen files to skiplist. T

Re: db4 backend alternative

2004-12-21 Thread Mark Hannessen
On Monday 20 December 2004 23:25, you wrote: > Hi Mark, > > I'm looking for information as to how to convert from BDB4 to skiplist. well, I don't have any real info or tools... I only had 4 mail adresses at that time so I just copied all the mail using imap from my old to the new server. might b

Re: db4 backend alternative

2004-12-10 Thread Mark Hannessen
lol, so this thread is still running.. been a while since I started it. I must say i am very pleased with skiplist, I have simulated a few hunderd crashes and it was able to recover every time. with db4 I had to pray for a succesfull restart or lose all my mail. (not kidding) the reason I switc

Re: db4 backend alternative

2004-12-10 Thread Henk . Roose
Michael Sims wrote: > Denny Schierz wrote: > > Am Montag, den 22.11.2004, 22:51 + schrieb Mark Hannessen: > >> I am really wondering about this because I just can't seem to get > >> db4 to run stable. > > > > same problem here. I have to delete once a week all db's (but > > mailboxes.db). Othe

RE: db4 backend alternative

2004-11-30 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, Am Mittwoch, den 24.11.2004, 20:18 +0100 schrieb Simon Matter: > In fact I may > change the defaults in my rpms to skiplist. You may ask why? Because > almost all questions I get regarding my rpms are related to problems with > BDB, not cyrus-imapd itself. same for me. I have enough from th

Re: db4 backend alternative

2004-11-24 Thread Ken Murchison
Mark Hannessen wrote: well, db4 was the default... so I thought a well, you got the picture :p anyways I am using skiplist now, and so far so good. but this entire thing does keep me wondering why skiplist isn't the default.. Because BDB is faster for random lookups. http://acs-wiki.andrew.cmu

RE: db4 backend alternative

2004-11-24 Thread Simon Matter
> well, db4 was the default... so I thought > a well, you got the picture :p > > anyways I am using skiplist now, and so far so good. > but this entire thing does keep me wondering why skiplist isn't the > default.. I think it's because for some databases, BDB may be a bit better than skiplist

RE: db4 backend alternative

2004-11-24 Thread Mark Hannessen
well, db4 was the default... so I thought a well, you got the picture :p anyways I am using skiplist now, and so far so good. but this entire thing does keep me wondering why skiplist isn't the default.. anyway, A big thanks to all you people out there. Mark Hannessen >Seriously, why don't yo

RE: db4 backend alternative

2004-11-24 Thread Michael Sims
Denny Schierz wrote: > Am Montag, den 22.11.2004, 22:51 + schrieb Mark Hannessen: >> I am really wondering about this because I just can't seem to get >> db4 to run stable. > > same problem here. I have to delete once a week all db's (but > mailboxes.db). Otherwise i have timeouts and bouncing

Re: db4 backend alternative

2004-11-24 Thread Simon Matter
> hi, > > same problem here. I have to delete once a week all db's (but > mailboxes.db). Otherwise i have timeouts and bouncing mails :-/ Did you try using skiplist instead? > > Am Montag, den 22.11.2004, 22:51 + schrieb Mark Hannessen: > >> I am really wondering about this because I just can

Re: db4 backend alternative

2004-11-24 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, same problem here. I have to delete once a week all db's (but mailboxes.db). Otherwise i have timeouts and bouncing mails :-/ Am Montag, den 22.11.2004, 22:51 + schrieb Mark Hannessen: > I am really wondering about this because I just can't seem to get db4 to run > stable. i have: No

Re: db4 backend alternative

2004-11-23 Thread info-cyrus -- Amos Gouaux
Incidentally, any experiences with Berkeley DB 4.3? Michael Sims wrote: Mark Hannessen wrote: just wondering... are there alternatives to the db4 backend for storing mail and such? I am thinking in the direction of mysql. (I have openldap as well, but that doesn't seem to be the right place to stor

RE: db4 backend alternative

2004-11-23 Thread Michael Sims
Mark Hannessen wrote: > just wondering... > > are there alternatives to the db4 backend for storing mail and such? > I am thinking in the direction of mysql. (I have openldap as well, > but that doesn't seem to be the right place to store mail) > > I am really wondering about this because I just

db4 backend alternative

2004-11-22 Thread Mark Hannessen
just wondering... are there alternatives to the db4 backend for storing mail and such? I am thinking in the direction of mysql. (I have openldap as well, but that doesn't seem to be the right place to store mail) I am really wondering about this because I just can't seem to get db4 to run stable