Re: openldap 2.0.7 is incredibly slow

[James Gregory <james@linuxplaza.com.au>]

"Kurt D. Zeilenga" wrote:
> 
> Likely waiting for reverse lookups to timeout... you might
> disable them via configure.

Tried that and got exactly the same result. But this is fascinating. You
see, out of desperation we decided to copy the entire hard disk of the
production machine onto a spare IDE drive that was lying around the
office. We then changed the lilo.conf file to point to the new IDE
drive, and we changed it's fstab to mount the IDE drive. I would like to
point out that this is /all/ we changed on the drive. We then booted
this drive in my colleages Celeron 400 machine and the make test ran
perfectly. We then put the IDE drive into the production machine, and
disconnected the RAID controller, and amazingly enough it worked
perfectly. Indeed, we put the raid controller back in the machine,
booted off IDE and it still worked perfectly. Now, we then plugged the
RAID array back in, so that it was in the original configuration. As
expected it didn't work.

So, to summarise, this is a problem which only appears when booting from
the Compaq Linux Certified RAID 5 array.

I've phoned compaq and they have said they'll get back to us twice now.

If anyone has had any success or failure getting an even mildly similar
configuration working, I would be thrilled to hear from you. We're
getting desperate here.

Thanks for all your help so far.

James.

> 
> At 01:15 PM 1/5/01 +1100, James Gregory wrote:
> >Hi everyone,
> >
> >I recenetly tried to move the openldap database from my test machine to
> >the produciton machine for a project I'm working on. On my machine,
> >(PIII-500) make test finishes reasonably quickly (say a couple of
> >minutes). However, I've now built openldap 2.0.7 on the production
> >machine and running make test takes several hours to complete. What's
> >wrong? Several hours for a few little queries like that isn't fast
> >enough for a production system.
> >
> >FYI, my machine is a pentium III-500, 64 MB ram, running mandrake 7.2.
> >the production machine is a Pentium III-800 with 256 MB ram running
> >redhat 6.2
> >
> >I'm using the same version of the berkeley ldbm back-end on both (rpms
> >for my machine, built from source for the prod. machine). Same version
> >of ssl (from the same rpms' on both machines) and the same version of
> >cyrus-sasl on both machines (built from source on both machines)
> >
> >Apart from that everything on both machines is a pretty standard stock
> >install of either distribution.
> >
> >oh, I also tried taking the compiled sources from my mandrake box and
> >putting it on the production mahcine and running make test. It took
> >hours.
> >
> >I'm guessing this a library issue and ldap is getting stuck trying to
> >establish connections or something, because CPU utilisation is way down.
> >The machine isn't doing any work at all.
> >
> >Has anyone run into this before?
> >
> >any ideas about how to solve it?
> >
> >thanks,
> >
> >james.