Re: (ITS#8958) 2nd cn=config update blocks slapd while adding subordinate index

[hyc@symas.com]

Hallvard Breien Furuseth wrote:
> On 1/19/19 9:55 PM, h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no wrote:
>> On 1/19/19 8:04 PM, Howard Chu wrote:
>>> The *server* is not hung. Only modifications to the cn=config DB are blocked.
>>
>> Yes it is.
> 
> That is, the 2nd mod to cn=config blocks, and that's fine by me, except
> _then_ the server is hung.

Ah, the 2nd cn=config mod has requested a pause, which can't succeed until all
background threads complete. And no new threads will be run while a pause is being requested.
This was the safest approach, considering that a config change could alter/remove context out
from under running threads otherwise.

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