Re: slapd stops authenticating

[Bill Dossett <billd emtex com>]

Hi,

nate wrote:
> Bill Dossett said:
>
>
> > I've just switched over to the replica server and there is little
> > to nothing runnning on it... it's redhat 8, that's pretty much
> > all I'm running now...
>
>
> how much ram/swap on the system?

512MB ram and 1024MB swap

> > > also how many slapd processes are running?
> >
> > hmm, I only have one slapd process runnning?  At least
> > when I do
> >
> > ps -auwx | grep slapd
> >
> > I only get one...
>
>
> odd, I have 35 at the moment, all with exactly 145 files open(each)


this is certainly an oddity...  I remember that I used
to have 20 or so running before this all started happening..

I guess I'll sit here and watch the logs and see what
happens tonight..

Thanks a lot for you help,

Cheers
Bill



> > But the lsof output shows 8 different pids, so I guess there are
> > 8 of them running.
>
>
> even stranger!
>
>
> > the lsof output is long, but for one pid this is it and it is the
> > same for the other PIDs pretty much....  Not sure but I think
> > this is typical.  It seems to me like something fairly drastic
> > is happening and then whatever it is stops happening and goes
> > back to normal...   that plus we lost power for about 4 hours
> > last night hasn't helped, not sure if the problem occurred again
> > last night or not with the power cut...  If you seen anything
> > unusual, or whatever, I'd appreciate the advice.
>
>
> what version of openldap? 2.1.x ? could be a bug, not sure what
> to suggest :<
>
> your lsof output for that one pid looks pretty good to me.
>
> I've been running 2.0.x for over a year and have never seen this
> problem.
>
> not sure what best to reccomend at this point, You could try
> increasing debugging to 256, or 65535 to get some really verbose
> output. I saw your other email about closing the file descriptors
> and noticed that happened nearly 5 hours before slapd started,
> so not sure what happened there either.
>
> nate