From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Gbf6I-0000Ky-JZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 15:18:59 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9MFGpx8013831; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 15:16:51 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.184]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9MFEf4o029106 for ; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 15:14:41 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id p46so2870885nfa for ; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 08:14:41 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=s6VjMl4fDub2tDkVDZaZFShLSZh3MPJE04CMWZOnpEA0wVA5ySC6EI999TefJJk0sXzL7pKNsv4FvFz8sIxuWoruLmVmnGhdbuRbYZ65UpW7+pWy6sFJkC4KkFqmJvjFuN5zJR9S7GMf9QVETw5Dy2JQCAuVREZ3F1VblskSnEI= Received: by 10.78.178.5 with SMTP id a5mr5717061huf; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 08:14:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.128.3 with HTTP; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 08:14:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49bf44f10610220814h7cae6cf0v46bfa3f03134860b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 08:14:40 -0700 From: Grant To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Do you leave it on? USE="berkdb" In-Reply-To: <453B3FF9.8090308@badapple.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <49bf44f10610161953k4db4f734ta0c7288ae9f4775e@mail.gmail.com> <4534EE5E.5090901@comcast.net> <49bf44f10610212021w2a25c23bm35f62c9cc320fa9b@mail.gmail.com> <453B3FF9.8090308@badapple.net> X-Archives-Salt: e5334c65-786d-4512-a5b7-a7a89f13c5fe X-Archives-Hash: 1b2cd4ae23e53c683fc15157bef000c5 > > Does anyone else have a comment on this? Does turning on berkdb > > increase the performance of the applications that can utilize it, with > > the downside of another package on the system? How about gdbm? > > At one point berkdb and gdbm conflicted in cyrus-sasl and I think there > were issues in PHP as well... this is roughly 2-3 years ago. I started > turning berkdb off for most things and never noticed a difference. My > understanding is that they do the same thing. > > I'd say using neither is an issue. Apache will start, process config > files, and then use berkdb or gdbm to create a hash of the vhosts for > fast lookups. I'd assume Apache has some less efficient fallback code to > hash configs or it would fail to build without one or the other. It sounds like I should have one or the other on. I guess I'll go for berkdb since it's a default and gdbm is not. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list