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

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>]

--On Monday, March 23, 2009 2:04 PM -0400 John Morrissey <jwm@horde.net> 
wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 12:32:53PM -0800, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> > --On Wednesday, March 04, 2009 3:30 PM -0500 John Morrissey
> > <jwm@horde.net> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 12:13:49PM -0800, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> > > > Interseting.  I've seen this sort of CPU usage issue with OpenLDAP
> > > > 2.3/BDB4.2.52 on Ubuntu 8.  Do you know how BDB 4.7 was built?  I.e.,
> > > > specifically, did it have the:
> > > >
> > > > --enable-posixmutexes --with-mutex=POSIX/pthreads
> > > >
> > > > options enabled?
> > >
> > > It's the Debian packaging for BDB 4.7 (only available in sid, but it's
> > > a simple rebuild to backport to lenny). They do *not* appear to pass
> > > any mutex-related options to ./configure.
> >
> > Yeah, that's a major problem in using Debian's builds of BDB.  You want
> > those options sent to configure when using BDB on Linux NPTL systems.
>
> FWIW, I've filed http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=520926
> against the Debian BDB 4.7 packaging.

Thanks.  I've send in a comment that they can review the discussion about 
this in <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=421946> as well.

--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
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