* [gentoo-user] Do you leave it on? USE="berkdb"
@ 2006-10-17 2:53 Grant
2006-10-17 14:53 ` Brian Davis
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From: Grant @ 2006-10-17 2:53 UTC (permalink / raw
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Do you guys leave the berkdb USE flag on? It seems to be a default
flag, but I've been using -berkdb in make.conf ever since I started
using Gentoo. Is it basically a better way for lots of different
packages to manage their databases?
- Grant
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Do you leave it on? USE="berkdb"
2006-10-17 2:53 [gentoo-user] Do you leave it on? USE="berkdb" Grant
@ 2006-10-17 14:53 ` Brian Davis
2006-10-22 3:21 ` Grant
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From: Brian Davis @ 2006-10-17 14:53 UTC (permalink / raw
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I have mine off. However, you should see which packages you have
installed that would take advantage of it before you turn it off globally.
Grant wrote:
> Do you guys leave the berkdb USE flag on? It seems to be a default
> flag, but I've been using -berkdb in make.conf ever since I started
> using Gentoo. Is it basically a better way for lots of different
> packages to manage their databases?
>
> - Grant
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Do you leave it on? USE="berkdb"
2006-10-17 14:53 ` Brian Davis
@ 2006-10-22 3:21 ` Grant
2006-10-22 9:55 ` kashani
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From: Grant @ 2006-10-22 3:21 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
> I have mine off. However, you should see which packages you have
> installed that would take advantage of it before you turn it off globally.
>
> Grant wrote:
> > Do you guys leave the berkdb USE flag on? It seems to be a default
> > flag, but I've been using -berkdb in make.conf ever since I started
> > using Gentoo. Is it basically a better way for lots of different
> > packages to manage their databases?
> >
> > - Grant
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?
- Grant
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Do you leave it on? USE="berkdb"
2006-10-22 3:21 ` Grant
@ 2006-10-22 9:55 ` kashani
2006-10-22 15:14 ` Grant
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From: kashani @ 2006-10-22 9:55 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
Grant wrote:
> 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.
kashani
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Do you leave it on? USE="berkdb"
2006-10-22 9:55 ` kashani
@ 2006-10-22 15:14 ` Grant
2006-10-22 17:04 ` [gentoo-user] " Harm Geerts
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From: Grant @ 2006-10-22 15:14 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
> > 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
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* [gentoo-user] Re: Do you leave it on? USE="berkdb"
2006-10-22 15:14 ` Grant
@ 2006-10-22 17:04 ` Harm Geerts
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From: Harm Geerts @ 2006-10-22 17:04 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On Sunday 22 October 2006 17:14, Grant wrote:
> > > 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.
In the amd64-2006+ and x86-2005.1+ profiles both berkdb and gdbm are on by
default. This leaves the choice to the applications.
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