Re: RE24 testing call (2.4.27 official call #1)

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> --On Tuesday, November 08, 2011 12:13 PM -0800 Quanah Gibson-Mount
> <quanah@zimbra.com>  wrote:
>
> > --On Tuesday, November 08, 2011 8:27 PM +0100 Michael StrÃder
> > <michael@stroeder.com>  wrote:
> >
> > > Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> > > > Please test RE24.  Thanks!
> > >
> > > There is something fishy in test044. It seg faults every now and then.
> > > Sometimes after 20-30 iterations, sometimes sooner. Not sure whether it's
> > > only due to back-mdb.
> > >
> > > ITS with details will follow. Others should bang on this as well.
> >
> > 50 iterations completed for me no issue.  I'm trying again with 500
> > iterations.  I assume you are seeing this specifically with the back-mdb
> > backend.
> >
> > I'm using ./run -l 500 -b mdb test044
>
> Zero failures for me after over 1000 runs.  OTOH, Howard's been able to
> reproduce it twice and is looking at how to fix it. ;)

Stack overrun in back-mdb. back_mdb_search is a bit more memory hungry than 
back_bdb_search, unfortunately. The nested search call that dynlist invokes is 
enough to put it over the top.

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