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Re: SyncRepl provider failure, ITS 3534 and 3546



Does this mean there will be a 2.2.24?  And if so, could you give me a
rough idea of the timeline?

-Matt

On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 10:21 -0800, Howard Chu wrote:
> After a lot of testing I've decided to commit the patch from ITS#3546, 
> so it will appear in 2.2.24. The patch is already in  
> OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_2_2 in CVS if you'd like to test it yourself.
> 
> The resource leak described in ITS#3448 occurs pretty rarely, i.e., only 
> when a persistent search connection closes uncleanly (typically due to a 
> network failure, or the persistent search client terminating uncleanly), 
> so I think it's livable until 2.3 goes into production.
> 
> Matthew J. Smith wrote:
> 
> >I am running into the SyncRepl provider failure discussed in ITS 3534
> >and 3546, using OpenLDAP 2.2.23.  Based on those discussions, it seems
> >there are 4 options:
> >
> >1)  Apply a patch listed in 3546, which will fix this particular
> >problem, but will revert to the resource leak described in ITS 3448.
> >
> >2)  Upgrade to 2.3.x, which is labelled as alpha (which I assume means
> >unfit for production)
> >
> >3)  Downgrade to ~2.2.17 which did not seem to have this problem, but of
> >course is lacking other patches included in 2.2.23
> >
> >4)  Use Slurp for replication instead of SyncRepl (SyncRepl has worked
> >fine for me 2.2.6 through 2.2.19, for 2 replicas).
> >
> >Of course, I am hoping for unlisted option 5) "Upgrade to 2.2.24, which
> >would include a fix for this problem", but of course I understand that
> >2.2.23 is frozen, and that this fix may require much effort.
> >
> >So, since I am not qualified to write this fix myself, which of the
> >above 4 options is the recommended path?
> >
> >Thank you,
> >-Matt
> >
> >Matthew J. Smith
> >University of Connecticut ITS
> >This message sent at Tue Mar 1 11:56:56 2005
> >PGP Key: http://web.uconn.edu/dotmatt/matt.asc
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> 

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