Re: delta-syncrepl replica out of date

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> --On Wednesday, October 17, 2007 3:58 PM -0400 Francis Swasey
> <Frank.Swasey@uvm.edu> wrote:
>
> > I have a master and nine delta-syncrepl replicas all running on RHEL 4
> > using OpenLDAP 2.3.38 on the master and all replicas.
> >
> > The master is configured to purge entries from the accesslog after 12
> > hours (and checks every 2 hours).  I forget where I grabbed that from why
> > I used it.
>
> Yeah, that seems a little short.. The shortest I've dropped a master to is
> 4 days.  You may have discovered an undocumented feature :P

Not a feature. When the replica is out of date with the log it's supposed to 
get a reloadHint from the master and fallback to plain syncrepl against the 
main DB, all automatically. If that isn't happening, then there's a bug.
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