Re: [Sks-devel] Cleaning up KDB directory?

[Jeremy T. Bouse]

On 22.02.2015 10:23, Jeffrey Johnson wrote:
> > On Feb 22, 2015, at 10:19 AM, Jeremy T. Bouse 
> > <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > There are two approaches:
> > >
> > > 1) (automated) Add this line to DB_CONFIG (which you are using,
> > > correct?)
> > > set_flags DB_LOG_AUTOREMOVE
> > >
> > > 2) (manual) Run these commands on idle databases (with KDB/PTree as
> > > cwd)
> > > dbXY_recover -ev
> > > dbXY_checkpoint -1
> > > dbXY_archive -dv
> > > (XY == version of Berkeley DB in use, e.g. XY=53 for db-5.3.x)
> > >
> > > hth
> > >
> > > 73 de Jeff
> >
> > I'm curious if this is a OS or distribution specific change as I 
> > took the liberty of checking on my SKS hosts and found on all 3 the 
> > sks/DB directory was only around 12GB and at most I found 3 10MB log 
> > files while none of the hosts have a DB_CONFIG other than under 
> > /usr/share/doc.
>
> Nope: bog standard Berkeley DB configuration and utilities for
> transactional databases.
>
> 73 de Jeff

Then perhaps Debian has changed defaults or something as I've made no 
customization and have no DB_CONFIG nore do I have any process that runs 
the manual commands to maintain the database and it has never once 
become and issue since I've been running the servers.