Re: [Ldapdns-users] Real-world $HANDLERS and $THREADS values with OpenLDAP

[James W. (S. Sysadmin) <sys...@su...>]

Cool, that seems to have sorted it.  And thanks a heap for this 
software, it meets a very important need...

James Wakefield
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Mrs. Brisby wrote:

>LDAPDNS has to answer very quickly, and there are race conditions with
>the OpenLDAP client libraries.
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>Some of these appear to disappear if you set HANDLERS=1 and THREADS=128
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>On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 14:23 +1100, James Wakefield (Sunet Sysadmin)
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>>G'day guys,
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>>I'm running OpenLDAP 2.2.23 and ldapdns 2.06 (as per Debian stable) and 
>>every few minutes syslog is telling me that a handler or two has waited 
>>too long.  At this point, DNS lookups time out until ldapdns is 
>>restarted.  I am supporting some reasonably intense apps with the LDAP 
>>server (mail, web vhosts, RADIUS, NSS for user/group lookups), but those 
>>are working without complaint.  Following the FAQ, I tried upping 
>>$HANDLERS (to 256 from 128) but to no avail.  The LDAP server is on 
>>127.0.0.1 so I would think it's unlikely to be network latency.  Can 
>>someone with a similar setup let me know what values they're using, as 
>>restarting ldapdns from a cron job every few minutes is not what I want 
>>to be doing.
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>>Cheers,
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