[389-users] Monitoring recovering

[David Boreham]

Rich Megginson wrote:
> Emmanuel BILLOT wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> When DS is crashed, sometimes logs sayes "Recovering Database" and i 
>> have to wait for minutes before it re run.
>> Is it possible to watch what DS is doing (recovering progression ?)
> No, not really.  I suppose you could strace the process.  I think all 
> of the work is being done inside of berkeley db, I'm not sure how to 
> get that information.
There's a way to enable recovery logging in BDB, and have the output go 
to the DS logs.
Unfortunately I don't remember how to do it, but it probably isn't hard 
to figure out from the code.
Having done that, the progress can be seen by tailing the log.

There's a more advanced progress monitoring mechanism in BDB now, but 
the DS doesn't use it.