Re: what if slapd hangs???

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>]

--On Friday, March 14, 2003 4:12 PM +0100 Tarassov Vadim 
<Vadim.Tarassov@winterthur.ch> wrote:

> Hallo everybody,
>
> trying now to add ca. 10000 entries to my directory using LDAP client
> I've noticed that slapd (2.1.8 yeah a bit old ....)  starts to do
> "nothing". Here I mean that it actually responded to other clients but
> the one which is supposed to add a lot of entries is hanging ..... Same
> is happening with bdb and ldbm backends, it just stops to add entries. It
> happens on solaris 6 and solaris 8 with both berkeley 4.1.24 and 4.1.25.
>
> For example, in case of bdb slapd writes:
>
> Mar 14 14:07:27 c003996 slapd[21377]: [ID 589251 local4.debug] ====>
> bdb_unlocked_cache_return_entry_w( 9230 ): created (0)
>
> nothing else happens afterwards.
>
> Looking in the list I found that some people experienced troubles with
> big amount of entries, however I have not found symptoms really similar
> to mine. Hence is there any more or less general "roadmap" which one can
> follow in order to identify reason for such strange behavior?
>
> Thanx a lot, vadim tarassov.

Vadim,

I suggest upgrading to 2.1.16 when it becomes available, as there are a lot 
of bug fixes between 2.1.8 and 2.1.16 that most likely will fix the problem 
you are seeing.

--Quanah


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