Re: (ITS#5886) epoll issues with lost connections

[quanah@zimbra.com]

--On Tuesday, January 13, 2009 6:25 PM -0800 Quanah Gibson-Mount 
<quanah@zimbra.com> wrote:

> --On Tuesday, January 13, 2009 9:04 PM +0000 openldap-its@OpenLDAP.org
> wrote:
>
> Actually, this appears to be a kernel/epoll bug.  Adding a 10000
> microsecond (.01 second) sleep to my script makes it so that slapd never
> times out accepting connections.  If I remove the sleep, slapd stops
> accepting connections for about a 5-10 second period of time.  It appears
> entirely related to "connection lost" type of connections, because adding
> an unbind statement also never triggers the issue.

As a side note, however, LDAPI was unsable after about 200 connections with 
this script until the connection handling was patched.  After that, it 
worked without any sleep in place.

--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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