RE: Slurpd locks when slave's HD dies (ITS#2862)

[hyc@highlandsun.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-openldap-bugs@OpenLDAP.org
> [mailto:owner-openldap-bugs@OpenLDAP.org]On Behalf Of quanah@stanford.edu

> I found out rather accidently today when the HD failed on one
> of our OpenLDAP
> servers, that slurpd locked up and would no longer send
> updates to the replicas.
>  A normal kill -INT also would not stop slurpd (it had to be
> done with a kill
> -9).  After restarting slurpd, updates processed as normal.
> I imagine some
> thread lockup happened.  Truss wasn't very useful.

This report is a bit vague. Was the locked up slurpd on the same machine that
had the failed drive? Or was it on another machine, in the middle of updating
a hung slave?