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Master replication server reliability

I realized that it would be better to have two distinct emails with descriptive subjects for my two issues...

We moved to a replicated system yesterday (1 master and 2 slaves) and our mail server components authenticate against the two slaves and our updates are done against the master which receives no other traffic.  The slave servers have been up since the change but the master server has been going down from time to time.  I realized that my CGI was very good about unbinding but wasn't calling disconnect on the LDAP object when done so I've added this logic.  Could the failure to disconnect rather than just unbind cause such problems.  The CGI would also exit after running each time so the client endpoint to the LDAP server would go away with each run of the CGI.  I'd think that not disconnecting explicitly before exiting in the code wouldn't be ideal but wouldn't cause the slapd process great difficulty.  Would this sort of thing be likely to cause severe slapd problems?

Also, sometimes slurpd goes down and when it does I end up with a 2 GB (exactly) slurpd.replog file containing a great deal of redundant update data.  Has anyone else seen this?  Slurpd seems to consume 20% + of the CPU on a dual 2.4 Ghz. P4 system with 2 GB RAM while things are running normally.  This seems excessive.  Is this symptomatic of anything?

Again my system is Redhat Enterprise 3 ES with OpenLDAP 2.1.25 (back-bdb), BDB 4.2.52, and OpenSSL 0.9.7d.

Thank you all again for your time and wisdom.

Jamey


James Courtney
InPhonic, Inc.