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6 slapd-bdb, slapd-hdb - Berkeley DB backends to slapd
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9 /etc/openldap/slapd.conf
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12 The bdb backend to slapd(8) uses the Oracle Berkeley DB (BDB) package
13 to store data. It makes extensive use of indexing and caching to speed
14 data access.
15 Note that BDB is deprecated and support will be dropped in future
17 OpenLDAP releases. Installations should use the mdb backend instead.
18 hdb is a variant of the bdb backend that uses a hierarchical database
20 layout which supports subtree renames. It is both more space-efficient
21 and more execution-efficient than the bdb backend. It is otherwise
22 identical to the bdb behavior, and all the same configuration options
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24 It is noted that these options are intended to complement Berkeley DB
26 configuration options set in the environment's DB_CONFIG file. See
27 Berkeley DB documentation for details on DB_CONFIG configuration
28 options. Where there is overlap, settings in DB_CONFIG take prece‐
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32 These slapd.conf options apply to the bdb and hdb backend database.
33 That is, they must follow a "database bdb" or "database hdb" line and
34 come before any subsequent "backend" or "database" lines. Other data‐
35 base options are described in the slapd.conf(5) manual page.
36 cachesize <integer>
38 Specify the size in entries of the in-memory entry cache main‐
39 tained by the bdb or hdb backend database instance. The default
40 is 1000 entries.
41 cachefree <integer>
43 Specify the number of entries to free from the entry cache when
44 the cache reaches the cachesize limit. The default is 1 entry.
45 checkpoint <kbyte> <min>
47 Specify the frequency for checkpointing the database transaction
48 log. A checkpoint operation flushes the database buffers to
49 disk and writes a checkpoint record in the log. The checkpoint
50 will occur if either <kbyte> data has been written or <min> min‐
51 utes have passed since the last checkpoint. Both arguments
52 default to zero, in which case they are ignored. When the <min>
53 argument is non-zero, an internal task will run every <min> min‐
54 utes to perform the checkpoint. See the Berkeley DB reference
55 guide for more details.
56 checksum
58 Enable checksum validation of DB pages whenever they are read
59 from disk. This setting can only be configured before any data‐
60 base files are created.
61 cryptfile <file>
63 Specify the pathname of a file containing an encryption key to
64 use for encrypting the database. Encryption is performed using
65 Berkeley DB's implementation of AES. Note that encryption can
66 only be configured before any database files are created, and
67 changing the key can only be done after destroying the current
68 database and recreating it. Encryption is not enabled by
69 default, and some distributions of Berkeley DB do not support
70 encryption.
71 cryptkey <key>
73 Specify an encryption key to use for encrypting the database.
74 This option may be used when a separate cryptfile is not
75 desired. Only one of cryptkey or cryptfile may be configured.
76 dbconfig <Berkeley-DB-setting>
78 Specify a configuration directive to be placed in the DB_CONFIG
79 file of the database directory. The dbconfig directive is just a
80 convenience to allow all necessary configuration to be set in
81 the slapd.conf file. The options set using this directive will
82 only be written to the DB_CONFIG file if no such file existed at
83 server startup time, otherwise they are completely ignored. This
84 allows one to set initial values without overwriting/destroying
85 a DB_CONFIG file that was already customized through other
86 means. This directive may be specified multiple times, as
87 needed. For example:
88 dbconfig set_cachesize 0 1048576 0
89 dbconfig set_lg_bsize 2097152
90 dbnosync
92 Specify that on-disk database contents should not be immediately
93 synchronized with in memory changes. Enabling this option may
94 improve performance at the expense of data security. See the
95 Berkeley DB reference guide for more details.
96 dbpagesize <dbfile> <size>
98 Specify the page size to use for a particular database file, in
99 units of 1024 bytes. The default for the id2entry file is 16,
100 the default for all other files depends on the size of the
101 underlying filesystem's block size (typically 4 or 8). The max‐
102 imum that BerkeleyDB supports is 64. This setting usually should
103 not need to be changed, but if BerkeleyDB's "db_stat -d" shows a
104 large amount of overflow pages in use in a file, setting a
105 larger size may increase performance at the expense of data
106 integrity. This setting only takes effect when a database is
107 being newly created. See the Berkeley DB reference guide for
108 more details.
109 directory <directory>
111 Specify the directory where the BDB files containing this data‐
112 base and associated indexes live. A separate directory must be
113 specified for each database. The default is /var/openldap-data.
114 dirtyread
116 Allow reads of modified but not yet committed data. Usually
117 transactions are isolated to prevent other operations from
118 accessing uncommitted data. This option may improve perfor‐
119 mance, but may also return inconsistent results if the data
120 comes from a transaction that is later aborted. In this case,
121 the modified data is discarded and a subsequent search will
122 return a different result.
123 dncachesize <integer>
125 Specify the maximum number of DNs in the in-memory DN cache.
126 Ideally this cache should be large enough to contain the DNs of
127 every entry in the database. If set to a smaller value than the
128 cachesize it will be silently increased to equal the cachesize.
129 The default value is 0 which means unlimited, i.e. the DN cache
130 will grow without bound.
131 It should be noted that the DN cache is allowed to temporarily
133 grow beyond the configured size. It does this if many entries
134 are locked when it tries to do a purge, because that means
135 they're legitimately in use. Also, the DN cache never purges
136 entries that have cached children, so depending on the shape of
137 the DIT, it could have lots of cached DNs over the defined
138 limit.
139 idlcachesize <integer>
141 Specify the size of the in-memory index cache, in index slots.
142 The default is zero. A larger value will speed up frequent
143 searches of indexed entries. An hdb database needs a large idl‐
144 cachesize for good search performance, typically three times the
145 cachesize (entry cache size) or larger.
146 index {<attrlist>|default} [pres,eq,approx,sub,<special>]
148 Specify the indexes to maintain for the given attribute (or list
149 of attributes). Some attributes only support a subset of
150 indexes. If only an <attr> is given, the indices specified for
151 default are maintained. Note that setting a default does not
152 imply that all attributes will be indexed. Also, for best per‐
153 formance, an eq index should always be configured for the
154 objectClass attribute.
155 A number of special index parameters may be specified. The
157 index type sub can be decomposed into subinitial, subany, and
158 subfinal indices. The special type nolang may be specified to
159 disallow use of this index by language subtypes. The special
160 type nosubtypes may be specified to disallow use of this index
161 by named subtypes. Note: changing index settings in
162 slapd.conf(5) requires rebuilding indices, see slapindex(8);
163 changing index settings dynamically by LDAPModifying "cn=config"
164 automatically causes rebuilding of the indices online in a back‐
165 ground task.
166 linearindex
168 Tell slapindex to index one attribute at a time. By default, all
169 indexed attributes in an entry are processed at the same time.
170 With this option, each indexed attribute is processed individu‐
171 ally, using multiple passes through the entire database. This
172 option improves slapindex performance when the database size
173 exceeds the dbcache size. When the dbcache is large enough, this
174 option is not needed and will decrease performance. Also by
175 default, slapadd performs full indexing and so a separate
176 slapindex run is not needed. With this option, slapadd does no
177 indexing and slapindex must be used.
178 lockdetect {oldest|youngest|fewest|random|default}
180 Specify which transaction to abort when a deadlock is detected.
181 The default is random.
182 mode <integer>
184 Specify the file protection mode that newly created database
185 index files should have. The default is 0600.
186 searchstack <depth>
188 Specify the depth of the stack used for search filter evalua‐
189 tion. Search filters are evaluated on a stack to accommodate
190 nested AND / OR clauses. An individual stack is assigned to each
191 server thread. The depth of the stack determines how complex a
192 filter can be evaluated without requiring any additional memory
193 allocation. Filters that are nested deeper than the search stack
194 depth will cause a separate stack to be allocated for that par‐
195 ticular search operation. These allocations can have a major
196 negative impact on server performance, but specifying too much
197 stack will also consume a great deal of memory. Each search
198 stack uses 512K bytes per level. The default stack depth is 16,
199 thus 8MB per thread is used.
200 shm_key <integer>
202 Specify a key for a shared memory BDB environment. By default
203 the BDB environment uses memory mapped files. If a non-zero
204 value is specified, it will be used as the key to identify a
205 shared memory region that will house the environment.
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208 The bdb and hdb backends honor access control semantics as indicated in
209 slapd.access(5).
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212 /etc/openldap/slapd.conf
213 default slapd configuration file
214 DB_CONFIG
216 Berkeley DB configuration file
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219 slapd.conf(5), slapd-config(5), slapd-mdb(5), slapd(8), slapadd(8),
220 slapcat(8), slapindex(8), Berkeley DB documentation.
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223 OpenLDAP Software is developed and maintained by The OpenLDAP Project
224 <http://www.openldap.org/>. OpenLDAP Software is derived from Univer‐
225 sity of Michigan LDAP 3.3 Release. Originally begun by Kurt Zeilenga.
226 Caching mechanisms originally designed by Jong-Hyuk Choi. Completion
227 and subsequent work, as well as back-hdb, by Howard Chu.
228OpenLDAP 2.4.44 2016/02/05 SLAPD-BDB(5)