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Re: Long slapd shutdown times
Audrius Valunas wrote:
slapd shutdown may take hours to complete. the backend in use is BDB
with berkley db version 4.2.52. The reason seems to bee flushing of
transactions logs or similar. db_archive while slapd running says that
ALL logs are still needed. And if wait for slapd to shutdown
db_archive allows removal of all of them but last.
Is this behaviour feature, bug or some misconfiguration of mine ?
You didn't mention which version of OpenLDAP you're using, but probably
all of the above:
misconfiguration: see the checkpoint directive in slapd-bdb(5).
feature: back-bdb uses a long-lived transaction for read operations, to
avoid a cache deadlock issue. All the details are in this email thread.
http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-devel/200407/msg00017.html
http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-devel/200407/msg00051.html
bug: BerkeleyDB 4.2 holds the transaction log open even if a transaction
hasn't done any writes. The long-lived read transactions that back-bdb
uses causes the db_archive behavior you're seeing. This bug is fixed in
BerkeleyDB 4.3, but as Quanah is quick to point out, BerkeleyDB 4.3 has
other problems. I posted a workaround here:
http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-devel/200407/msg00068.html
This question was also discussed on this mailing list a couple months ago
http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-software/200411/msg00272.html
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