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Re: (ITS#5508) slapd process consumes all of CPU



whm@stanford.edu wrote:
> Full_Name: Bill MacAllister
> Version: 2.3.41-1su2
> OS: debian etch kernel 2.6.18-4-amd64
> URL: http://www.stanford.edu/~whm/ldap-test1-bt.txt
> Submission from: (NULL) (171.64.19.165)
>
>
> The slapd process will sometimes consume all of available CPU.  We observed this
> when we upgraded our production servers from 2.3.35-2su2 to 2.3.41-1su2.  The
> problem was bad enough that we downgraded the production servers to 2.3.35-2su2.
>   We have been trying to provoke the problem in our test environment and have not
> been successful in making it happen on demand.  Today, we noticed that one of
> our test servers went completely CPU bound.  I took a backtrace.  It is
> available at the URL below.  The interesting thing about the problem is that
> although top shows a pinned CPU and a high load the server is still responsive
> and continues to answer LDAP searches.  The test server that exhibits the
> problem is still CPU bound and has been for 2-3 hours now.  We will leave this
> server in this state in case there is other information that we should harvest
> in resolving the problem.

Please also provide the output from db_stat -CA on the database in question, 
thanks.

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