[Dnsmasq-discuss] Re : Feature request for dhcp-hostfiles to behave like addn-hosts

[richardvoigt at gmail.com]

I haven't used sqlite, but I would imagine it loses many of its
advantages in the lease script process-model -- dnsmasq spawns a new
process for every lease.

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Vincent Cadet <v_cadet at yahoo.fr> wrote:
> Simon Kelley wrote:
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>> > A tangential  question, I've increased MAXLEASES to
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>> > #define MAXLEASES  16384
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>> > in config.h. Is there any danger in having this many  leases and
>> > increasing this even higher if necessary? I'm a few weeks  away from
>> > being able to test this at scale and appreciate any warnings  or
>> > feedback anyone might have now.
>> >
>> If you get bitten  anywhere, it will be performance writing the lease
>> file. That gets truncated  and re-written for every change. On reasonable
>> storage it should be fine, but  maybe not on a slow flash drive. If it's
>> a problem that's that prefect excuse  to write a script to move the
>> database to a MySQL backend,  right?
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> What about sqlite? IMHO MySQL seems a little bit overkill for that purpose.
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> Vince C.
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