Re: [Sks-devel] sks.disunitedstates.com down and out

[Hendrik Grewe]

Hi!
As requested I have removed you from my membership file.
For informational purpouse:
I am running my sks on the tinyest VPS (parallels) from 1&1 it is a
special offer for students, is rate unlimited and costs 1€/year so very
very cheap (and powerless 2 gigs ram, 40 gigs discspace  1x2Ghz core).
The VPS currently serves a postfix/dovecot/amavis/spamassasin/roundcube
mailserver, LAMP stack + sks.

I did not have any issues with BerkleyDB / sks so far.
I think Berkley DB is wellsuited for use of a keyserver since it is
optimised for key/value pairs (to quote Wikipedia):
>BDB stores arbitrary key/data pairs as byte arrays, and supports
>multiple data items for a single key. Berkeley DB is not a relational
>database.

I don't think there will (ever?) be a swith from BDB to any relational
database, as those features are not needed.

Also what I have read about your tries to "recover" the database. I
think I have read in some FAQ that one should _not_ try to recover a
(somehow) corrupted sks database. Instead one should start (from
skratch) with some actual keydump.

But nevertheless thank you for your services within the SKS pool.

Hendrik

Am 11.04.2015 um 00:44 schrieb David Benfell:
> Hello all,
> 
> There are a few folks in my membership file for whom I do not have email
> addresses. This is mostly for them.
> 
> I have previously commented on the difficulty of keeping the sks
> database healthy. I just discovered my sks instance had been down for
> several days. I tried to recover and it crashed again.
> 
> I'm giving up.
> 
> When there is an sks that uses a reliable database system, I'll be happy
> to rejoin. But Berkeley DB is not sane in my environment, has never
> proven scalable in any environment I've had in the past, and I'm not
> messing with it any more.
> 
> 
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