Re: Question about openLDAP, bdb backend, and commits

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

--On Wednesday, December 01, 2004 1:40 PM -0500 Misty Stanley-Jones 
<misty@borkholder.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We had a power outage and UPS failure last week, and the LDAP server was
> shut  down uncleanly.  When it came back up, surprisingly the database
> looked  intact except for the very last entry I had added (adding a Samba
> machine  account).  The only thing is, I had added that entry at least an
> hour before  the power outage and that system is not a busy system at
> all.  I was curious  about why the transaction obviously did not get
> written to all the internal  tables, and if there is a way that I can
> ensure that transactions get written  out quicker than that.  Is it a
> limitation with BDB backend?  I am running: openldap2-2.2.6-37.22
> db-4.2.52-85
>
> on SuSE 9.1.  EXT3 fs.

Examine your "checkpoint" setting in slapd.conf, or add one if you don't 
have one.

Also your version of OpenLDAP 2.2 is rather old and known to be buggy.


--Quanah

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