Re: Timeouts and TTL's

[Hans Moser <hans.moser@ofd-sth.niedersachsen.de>]

Hi!

Matthew Stier schrieb:
> I am using OpenLDAP (2.3.38) as a proxy server, to provide a single 
> point of lookup, for the many e-mail systems used within the company I 
> work for.
>
> The only problem I am now encountering, is 'slapd' randomly hanging, and 
> I suspect that could be caused by bad interactions between the proxy and 
> ldap servers.
yes, I experienced the same a while ago.

> The most plausible solution would be to implement timeout's, but that is 
> where I come into a brink wall, trying to understand when each of the 
> multitude of timeout and ttl setting should be used.
conn-ttl 90
idle-timeout 1m30s

solved my problems. YMMV

man slapd-meta


Hans