Mark Cooper wrote:
I've been doing some testing using OpenLDAP with BDB on a couple of different platforms. I noticed a similar situation. When I sit in a loop doing adds, at the 65,536th added entry the process stalls for a short period of time. After a minute or two, the add succeeds. My first thought is that this is a BDB issue, so I posted this question to Oracle's BDB forum. But I have yet to receive any answer.
This is all known/expected behavior. One (or more) of your index slots hit its maxsize of 65535 elements and was collapsed into a range. This typically happens with the objectClass index first, if you're adding a bunch of objects all of the same classes.
Taking a minute or two is abnormal, but I suppose is possible if multiple indices hit the condition at the same time.
This situation seems to happen when I have around 43 10MB log files. During the stall, I notice many log files are being written (another 25 or so), which is a much quicker rate than was being written prior to the stall.
The stall only happens once. I added another 350,000 entries and no more stalls. I ran a few other tests. Added 65,535 entries. All is fine. As soon as the next entry is add, even if I recycle the server, I hit the condition. I even tried deleting 1,000 entries. I would then need to add 1,0001 to get to 65,536 entries in the database and then hit the delay.