Re: 2.2.13 crashes with ch_realloc of 2455080002 bytes failed

[Janis Pinkis <jpinkis@lanet.lv>]

> --On Thursday, June 17, 2004 6:52 PM +0300 Janis Pinkis <jpinkis@lanet.lv> 
> wrote:
> 
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> --On Thursday, June 17, 2004 4:52 PM +0300 Janis Pinkis
> >> <jpinkis@lanet.lv>  wrote:
> >>
> >> >
> >> > It happened, when i was making a massive data import, with ldapadd and
> >> > in paralel rstarted a consumer server. Both hosts are runnig RHEL3 and
> >> > openldap-2.2.13.
> >
> >> This is either a problem with RedHat, or your configuration of RedHat.
> >> Make sure that slapd is started with ulimit -n.
> >>
> >> You also did not include your DB_CONFIG file.
> >>
> >> Please see my post from yesterday:
> >>
> >> <http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-software/200406/msg00472.html>
> >
> > By the way, i tried to restart consumer once more, and my provider slapd
> > crashed again without any messages in syslog. But it happens, only, if
> > i'am doing ldapadd on provider, if not, i can restart the consumer how i
> > like, nothing bad happens. One more thing, both machines are SMP
> > machines, with 4 CPUs each.
> 
> I suggest using slurpd instead of syncRepl.  I'm still seeing issues around 
> using syncRepl in my development environment that keep me from considering 
> it for use in our production environment.
> 
> Your DB_CONFIG looks alright, except I tend to only set this:
> 
> #
> # Set database flags.
> # (for database loading/reindexing)
> set_flags       DB_TXN_NOSYNC
> 
> if I'm doing a slapadd (*not* ldapadd).
> 
> Again, the memory issue you are seeing appears to be directly related to 
> RedHat, as the several people who've reported it were all using RedHat, and 
> I can't duplicate it under Debian.  I may have a RedHat box to test this on 
> @ Stanford in the near future.
> 

Thx. I'll try to use slurp.

Regards
J.Pinkis