On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 09:31, Mike Rogers wrote: > Hi folks. > > According to the UPGRADE documentation for vpopmail 5.0, "If you are running > a mysql, ldap or anything besides the default vpasswd(cdb) module follow the > normal directions in the INSTALL file." What happens if you run cdb itself? > This suggests that if you run anything else, to just follow the normal > instructions but does not say what to do if you do run CDB. I recall > something about a convert program because a few things have changed. Is > this correct? Am I simply interpreting this wrong? > > As well, I switched to CDB because when the system was getting loaded, MySQL > was getting too slow and failing on some requests. I believe I have enough > power now as I have severely reduced the load on the server. Is it > worthwhile for me to switch back? When is the threshold in which CDB starts > loosing out to MySQL.
Sounds like the UPGRADE info needs upgrading. you can upgrade to 5.0 with cdb no problem. Just dont set --enable-clear-passwd=y On a single machine, cdb will probably beat mysql on lookups for any size. cdb will start to take "too long" to update once you go over about 5,000 users. update/delete/add Ken
