Re: LDAP hangs requiring slapd stop and deleting __db.00* files

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

--On Tuesday, March 29, 2005 12:56 PM +0530 Abhishek Daga 
<abhishek@ostech.biz> wrote:

> Hello and thanks for the quick response.
> I am posting some more relevant information in case that will help
> diagnose the situation better.
>
> Hardware information & Versions used.
> a) openldap-2.1.30
> b) Berkeley DB 4.2.52
> c) Hardware: CPU - Intel p4 1.4 GHz, 1 GB RAM, 250 GB IDE Hard Drive
> We have around 5000 registered users of which 350 check email daily.
> However being popular domains, we get a lot of spam as well as bounced
> invalid mail (where someone is using our domain as return mail). So after
> putting some filters/firewall in place we can determine that we get
> around 3/4 requests a second.
>
>
> You have suggested using db_recover which we have tried. As per what we
> understood, db_recover can be used when our database is corrupt and we
> need to recover
> data but in our case ldap goes off not the data. In log file it shows
> authdaemon.ldap TEMP fail. I am pasting below the contents of our
> slapd.conf file if that will further assist in debugging the issue we are
> facing. If you could tell me what other information is required, I'll be
> glad to fish it out for you.

The fact that you are deleting the BDB environment files (The __* stuff) 
suggests some type of corruption.  db_recover will correctly close those 
files out (and remove them).  Deleting them manually is not a wise path to 
take.


--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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