Hi,
I'm trying to use openldap, v2.1.22 on red-hat linux AS 2.1, to support
email routing with sendmail (8.12.6). Our email server processes
50-100k messages per day. After running for a few hours, the ldap
server suddenly becomes very slow to respond.
I can take sendmail out of the picture and duplicate the problem easily
with the ldapsearch command. I setup a shell script that loops through
the alphabet and searches the ldap server as fast as it can. Running by
itself, the script can do about 200k queries per hour and overnight did
over 2.7M queries without error or slow downs and the CPU load on the
server is only 10-15%.
The problem is that within minutes of starting a second shell script
both scripts start experiencing very slow response times, 10
seconds/query. Performance does not return to normal when either of the
scripts is killed. Even after bouncing the ldap server processes the
response time is still very slow.
The only thing that seems to fix the problem is using db_recover -c
before starting the server. If I slow the scripts down to 1
query/second, both scripts can run without causing problems.
I don't understand running two high volume query scripts can corrupt the
bdb database (version 4.1.25). There are no updates being done during
the time the scripts are running.
I cant imagine that 100k email messages/day is to much for openldap so
something must be wrong with my installation. I am going to rebuild the
bdb software to enable the test scripts and diagnostics but was hoping
someone else has seen this problem.
I didn't see any bdb list servers on the sleepycat web site, is there a
better place to post this question?