RE: openldap core dumping under load

[Igor Brezac <igor@ipass.net>]

I am not sure if this is related, but I noticed that sendmail using ldapi
fails to connect to the ldap server at random times under moderate to
heavy loads.  I changed to ldap://localhost/ and problem when away.  This
is not a very busy sendmail installation.

-Igor

On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Howard Chu wrote:

> I believe part of the response problem may be due to how sendmail interacts
> with LDAP, and part due to how slapd processes its input. Sendmail tends to
> spew a ton of queries out in rapid succession, and slapd tends to try to read
> all of its input before it processes any of it. There are two macros in
> slapd/connection.c that affect slapd's behavior: CONNECTION_INPUT_LOOP and
> DATA_READY_LOOP. If you comment out both of them, then slapd will read only
> one message at a time. Try that, it may even out the response time.
>
> Of course, pummeling a 350MHz PII with a 2.4GHz P4 may be part of your
> problem too...
>
>   -- Howard Chu
>   Chief Architect, Symas Corp.       Director, Highland Sun
>   http://www.symas.com               http://highlandsun.com/hyc
>   Symas: Premier OpenSource Development and Support
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gordon Shumway [mailto:gshumway@cityextreme.com]
>
> > Thanks Howard.
> >
> > That certainly stopped the core dump.
> >
> > The only issue now seems to be CPU. During these times of
> > unusually high
> > load, slapd seems to use enough of the CPU to cause responses
> > to be slow.
> > Slow enough for IMAP ldap auths to timeout. Everything comes
> > good once the
> > mail flow slows.
> >
> > Maybe I just need a faster box.
>
>

-- 
Igor