Re: scaling openldap for performance

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

--On Sunday, June 06, 2004 12:18 AM -0700 Trevor Warren 
<trevorwarren@yahoo.com> wrote:

> --- Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com> wrote:
> > The BDB patch affects a locking issue, it usually
> > results in making the
> > server hang.
> [snip]
>
>  Never had a server hang till date in any of the
> tests. Only seg faults. No core dumps.
>
>
> > I have no idea what is causing your crashes. Perhaps
> > you should use a
> > debugger and get a trace from one of the crashes to
> > see where it
> > occurred.
> [snip]
>
>   Hmm....without a core dump where should i start
> analysing howard?. What would ya suggest??.

I would suggest you run GDB on the running process, and then run your tests 
to make it segfault, and then do a backtrace, etc.

--Quanah

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