Re: (ITS#4473) never ending test008

[Kurt@OpenLDAP.org]

Examining the server's log, I determined the test client
was causing the server's listen backlog to get exhausted.
Setting noinit to non-zero resolved this problem.

Kurt

At 04:22 PM 4/4/2006, ando@sys-net.it wrote:
>On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 23:05 +0000, kurt@OpenLDAP.org wrote:
>
>> In recent HEAD, test008 fails to complete within a reasonable amount of time.
>> At present, not clear whether this is simply due to test008 doing more than
>> it use to, due to recent changes to the test code, or due to recent changes in
>> the server.  Current RE23 is fine.
>
>should be related to recent changes I made in test tools; basically,
>write tools are run as many times as required by the related
>configuration files, while read tools are run the max between the
>related configuration files and the number of children requested with -
>j.  In some cases, this results in extra reads.  The rationale is to
>allow very heavy testing by using -j 250 and just a few lines in
>do_search.*.  It is not clear if and why test008 is so heavily affected
>by this change; I didn't notice much difference.
>
>Basically, maxkids is 20; do_search.0 contains 6 searches, do_read.0
>contains 5 searches, do_bind.0 (HEAD only) contains 3 DNs; the above
>change roughly results in 3 times the searches and 4 times the reads
>present in re23, and 20 bind loops that were not present in re23.
>
>HEAD:
>
>SLAPD_DEBUG=0 time ./run test008
>...
>8.81user 7.69system 0:23.40elapsed 70%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata
>0maxresident)k
>0inputs+0outputs (14major+77735minor)pagefaults 0swaps
>
>re23:
>
>SLAPD_DEBUG=0 time ./run test008
>...
>0.58user 0.46system 0:11.18elapsed 9%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata
>0maxresident)k
>0inputs+0outputs (15major+16793minor)pagefaults 0swaps
>
>Note that in HEAD the slapd-bind tool has been added, which introduces
>some extra load...
>
>
>If this sounds unreasonable, I can add a special option arg (e.g. -J) to
>implement that functionality.
>
>p.
>
>
>
>
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