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--On Monday, February 10, 2014 9:36 AM +0000 Mark
Cairney 

<Mark.Cairney@ed.ac.uk> wrote:

> "

> What version of BDB are you linked to?  There are consistent
reports of

> deadlock issues with BDB 5.3.  I would recommend against using
that

> version

> of BDB.  4.7.25+patches has been solid for me.  All indications
with the

> BDB deadlock issue in 5.3 is that it is a BDB bug, and thus nothing
to do

> with OpenLDAP.  It may exist in other 5.x versions of BDB.

> "

>

> I'm not making this up, honest ;-)

So build your OpenLAP against a different version of BDB. ;)  As I
noted, 

5.2.36 has worked fine for me for several years. ;)

> That should be do-able although as far as I can remember in the ITS
I had

> demonstrated that (at least on my setup) it was reproduceable and
I

> thought I'd given enough information for it to be reproduced on a
clean

> test rig with a sufficiently large pool of accounts in the one OU.
I'm

> also unsure of the etiquette involved in resurrecting a dormant bug.

> I'm happy to give you whatever information you need though and a

> sanitised dump of my config in both HDB and MDB modes is probably
a good

> place to start.

The primary OpenLDAP author just asked you to contribute more information,

so I wouldn't be too concerned about resurrecting the bug...

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount

Architect - Server

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