Thanks for responding, Pierangelo.

I am asking (begging) my chief engineer to entertain this idea. Will report back ASAP.

Thanks,

Jeff

On Oct 14, 2009, at 11:52 AM, masarati@aero.polimi.it wrote:

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Version: 2.4.17

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Occasionally, I will find one of my servers (running Debian/Lenny with back-ported slapd version 2.4.17) in a state where the following occurs:

• Write operations will 'freeze' - leaving the requester at a frozen

prompt or frozen LDAP-client of some kind (from wherever the write-operation originated).

• slapd refuses to 'stop', even though it indicates that its

waiting for "0" processes to complete.

• Logs do not indicate a segfault nor any poorly terminated

processes.

• Read operations on same server continue to function normally.

Any data that existed before the "freeze" is returned as it should be.

You probably hit ITS#6276, which was fixed in 2.4.18. Can you upgrade and test?

p.