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Re: OpenLDAP syncrepl woes



On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 12:09 AM, Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com> wrote:
> Jeffrey Crawford wrote:
>>
>> I'm trying to stabilize our openldap server farm before going live and
>> am finding that despite the contextCSN matching between providers and
>> replicas, the actual content of the server is getting out of sync.
>> This is most prominent when we are testing our population routine and
>> we need to remove all accounts before starting. right now it's only
>> about 22000 entries (It will get much larger).
>
>> During the mass delete we got the following sprinkled throughout the
>> logs on all machines:
>> ====
>> Nov 15 15:47:16 idm-prod-ldap-2 slapd[33070]: bdb(dc=domain,dc=name):
>> previous transaction deadlock return not resolved
>
> Wow. I've never seen this error message before. What version of OpenLDAP and
> BerkeleyDB are you using?

FreeBSD 8.2 with openldap 2.4.26, however like I mentioned before,
right now I think we are squeezing ram right now Part of this
deployment was to discover how much ram we needed on the virtual
machine and it was started pretty low.

>
>> Nov 15 15:47:16 idm-prod-ldap-2 slapd[33070]: =>  bdb_idl_delete_key:
>> cursor failed: Invalid argument (22)
>>
>> and the various replicas would still have accounts left over but they
>> wouldn't match each other.
>
> There are known bugs in syncrepl delete handling. ITS#7052 is probably
> relevant here. The fix will be in 2.4.27.

Any idea when it will be released?

>
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