Re: Slapd (OpenLDAP v2.3.11) Hangs Using 100% CPU Upon Start Up

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

--On Tuesday, November 15, 2005 10:54 AM -0800 Rik Herrin 
<rikherrin@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > OpenLDAP 2.3 *automatically* recovers the database. By running 
db_recover
> > manually in addition to the slapd startup doing it, you are likely
> > corrupting your database.

Please keep replies to the list.


> Actually, I ran db_recover after stopping slapd and after I noticed that
> slapcat was trying to recover the database but entering an infinite loop
> instead.  Since I know the db directories, should I try to replace
> slapd_db_revover2.3 with db_recover in ldap2.3 instead  of is
> slapd_db_recover2.3  of any use?

The point here is, you should not be running db_recover at all.  OpenLDAP 
2.3.11 does this for you automatically anytime the database needs it.  I 
suggest you don't use any instance of db_recover at all.  It sounds like 
slapcat might have a bug in how it recovers the database after you ran 
db_recover manually.

In any case, just stop using any form of db_recover.  It isn't necessary in 
the majority of use cases.  And you really shouldn't db_recover before 
running slapcat.

--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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