Re: back-sql disconnects

[masarati@aero.polimi.it]

>   While I have my slapd-server completely up and running, I do have one
> obstacle. The sql connection disconnects after some time of idling
> (MySQL server has gone away). Probably because the maximum seconds of
> idling has been reached. This means I have to restart slapd to fix the
> connection. I could open a cronjob to do that, but that's more a
> last-resort-solution.
>
> Is there a config option for reconnection or is there another possible
> solution?

No.  Yes, operations could be retried when they fail because the server
disconnected (and in general back-sql should do its best to retry
operations, much like other proxy backends do).

> I could imagine that slapd would try to reconnect in case it
> loses sql connection because this could happen for all sort of reaons.

There is a request for a similar capability.  See ITS#5796.  Patches are
welcome, as usual :).

p.