Re: SLAPD accepts connection, then hangs

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

--On Friday, January 20, 2006 2:35 PM +1100 Dave Horsfall <daveh@ci.com.au> 
wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
>
> > > The symptom is that SLAPD accepts a connection, then nothing further
> > > happens.  This happens around once a month, making it difficult to
> > > nail. Because the connection has been accepted, the client does not
> > > bother trying the backup server.
> >
> > It is possible it is related to:
> > ITS#4338
> > which wasn't fully fixed until:
> > 2.3.18
>
> Funny you should say that; we are using back-meta, but I understood
> it was substantially rewritten in 2.3?  That assertion doesn't appear
> to be in 2.2.26.
>
> > There were a number of symptoms other than that listed in the ITS.
>
> Hmmm...  And we are indeed belting the daylights out of back-meta...

Well, although 4338 specifically lists back-meta, some of the fixes were 
specific to the slapd daemon.

See:

<http://www.openldap.org/devel/cvsweb.cgi/servers/slapd/daemon.c?hideattic=1&sortbydate=0>

commits: 1.373, 1.375

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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Stanford University
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