Re: Xen with OpenLDAP

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

--On April 9, 2008 5:13:50 PM +0200 Buchan Milne 
<bgmilne@staff.telkomsa.net> wrote:


> On a modern distribution, OpenLDAP (and other software using NPTL) should
> work  without problems. The requirements are:
>
> -Xen 3.1 hypervisor with PAE (older versions may also work)
> -Recent-enough glibc (2.4, or 2.3 with the correct patches)
>
> IOW, RHEL5/Centos 5 should work fine. In my experience this is the case.
> I  fired up OpenLDAP 2.4.7 with db4.6 (with NPTL) on a RHEL 5.1 Xen DomU
> (I  don't currently have a working RHEL5 Dom0) this morning without
> problems, and  in the past I have run a more complete setups on Xen Dom0s.

In the cases I've seen, OpenLDAP started up just fine, and ran just fine, 
for a while. But at some point there'd be locking issues, and then the 
database was toast.  So I remain quite leery of trusting that just because 
OpenLDAP starts that Xen is fine.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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