Re: slow or inconsistent syncrepl

["Amol Kulkarni" <amolkulkarni@gmx.com>]

As per the recommendations, we have done following :
1. Installed openldap 2.4.30 on master & all replicas.
2. We have cascaded the replication by adding another replica in lan which acts as provider for the consumers on wan.

There are definite improvements but still we are observing following problem :

1. Bulk changes (1000 records changed) in LDAP on the provider,  do not replicate to replicas with busy ldap unless

a) the records are updated in smaller batches on provider

b) the replication database on the consumer is reset - i.e ldap restarted with -c rid=001

Is there a buffer/queue at the consumer side which overflows? Can it be tuned?
Does a busy server drop replication requests?

Thanks,
Amol.

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----- Original Message -----

From: Quanah Gibson-Mount

Sent: 03/12/12 03:36 AM

To: Amol Kulkarni

Subject: Re: slow or inconsistent syncrepl

 
--On Sunday, March 11, 2012 8:51 AM +0100 Amol Kulkarni 
<amolkulkarni@gmx.com> wrote: 

> 
> I see that I'm outdated in my tuning as per 
> http://wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/OpenLDAP_Performance_Tuning. 
>  I'll do these changes and observe the servers. 
> 
> In the mean time a new observation regarding syncrepl is that if I do 
> ldapmodify for 5 - 10 entries in one go the changes get replicated but if 
> I change about 300 entries in one go, then some entries do not get 
> replicated on some servers. These changes dont get replicated until I 
> change those entries again. 
> 
> Does this indicate provider resource problem or consumer resource problem 
> ( or normal behaviour ) ? 

Changes failing to replicate is not a desired behavior.  It is expected to 
occur in older known buggy releases.  If all of your masters & replicas are 
on 2.4.30, hopefully you won't see that issue any more. 

--Quanah 


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Quanah Gibson-Mount 
Sr. Member of Technical Staff 
Zimbra, Inc 
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