Re: RE24 (2.4.15) slapd consuming large amounts of CPU

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

John Morrissey wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 12:40:55PM -0800, Howard Chu wrote:
> > John Morrissey wrote:
> > > A backtrace (below) shows many threads waiting on a mutex in
> > > bdb_cache_*().
> >  From the trace it looks similar to ITS#5860. The patches for this are in
> > HEAD, not yet released.
>
> With an shm_key, slapd CPU consumption dropped noticably and has been
> running long enough to make the leak apparent.
>
> Since this second-round fix for ITS#5860 has been merged into RE24, do you
> recommend running that, or should I cherry-pick 1.120.2.{21,22} into our
> local packaging?

At this point I would just use RE24. Unless any new critical bugs show up in 
the next few days, it's very likely what will be 2.4.16.

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