Re: Measuring activity/problem with timeouts

[Jens Vagelpohl <jens@dataflake.org>]

On Jan 17, 2005, at 18:43, Rob Tanner wrote:

> I'm in the process of phasing in an OpenLDAP v2.2.17 (replacing an old
> Netscape 4 server), and every night, around midnight and then again at 
> around
> 4:30am, the mail system logs a bunch of timeouts accessing the LDAP 
> server --
> timeouts both when binding and searching.  The rest of the time, 
> everything
> appears to be running fine.

I would not be surprised if this has nothing to do with OpenLDAP and is 
related to other tasks (systems maintenance, log analysis, etc) running 
out of cron that simply overload the machine.

Log on the machine during that period and take a look at the system 
load.

jens

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