Re: slapd/bdb stability problem

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

--On Thursday, June 02, 2005 12:42 PM +0200 Steffen Hansen 
<steffen@klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se> wrote:

> Hi.
>
> We use OpenLDAP in the Kolab project, but after switching to the bdb
> backend there have been several reports about stability problems. Slapd
> sometimes seems to hang when someone tries to write to the database
> (for example with ldapadd).
>
> The complete description is available at
> https://intevation.de/roundup/kolab/issue707
>
> Currently we use openldap-2.2.23 and db-4.2.52.2. Do you have any
> suggestions on how I can get to the bottom of this problem? Anyone else
> having similar problems? I'm out of ideas here, so any kind of help or
> suggestion is greatly appreciated.

Have you configured a DB_CONFIG file?  BDB definitely will have issues with 
any decent size database if you have not configured the database properly.

Also, OpenLDAP-2.2.23 is a little old now (2.2.26 is the current stable 
release).

--Quanah

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