RE: back-meta (Was: (ITS#3971) slapo-glue dissolving after one query)

["Perry Nguyen" <pfnguyen@best.com>]

 http://w3.gofti.com/~pfnguyen/openldap/ldapsearch-meta-nretries-forever.txt

Ok, there's the log output of the nretries forever setting, I think it's
taking about 5 retries to get the data back from the server if it's ldap:,
ldaps: also seems to take 5 retries according to the log, the initial SSL
negotiation on connection and then 5 timeouts before data is received.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org 
> [mailto:owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org] On Behalf Of 
> Pierangelo Masarati
> Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 8:19 AM
> To: openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
> Subject: RE: back-meta (Was: (ITS#3971) slapo-glue dissolving 
> after one query)
> 
> 
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Pierangelo Masarati [mailto:ando@sys-net.it]
> >> Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 6:31 AM
> >
> >> I see.  In any case, it appear to time out while waiting for the
> (anonymous) bind to succeed.  Try setting "nretries forever" in the
> "database meta" block (a high number might suffice; the
> >> default 3 times
> >> + 1 rebind seem to not suffice).  If this works, I'm 
> considering the
> opportunity to allow configurable internal operation timeout,
> >> which is
> >> now fixed to 0.1 s.
> >
> > Ando,
> >
> > Alright, with nretries forever, the previously tried configuration
> works. With nretries unset, it fails.
> 
> Fine.  Then it appears you remote server is not quite 
> repsonsive (at least
> for binds; I hope it is for further requests).  Just for the 
> records, can
> you tell how many retries may be needed?  I think I'll 
> definitely allow
> that internal timeout to be configurable, for special needs 
> like yours.
> 
> >
> > (BTW slapo-glue still doesn't work beyond 1 query for me)
> 
> We'll (slowly) work at this now.  Cheers, p.
> -- 
> Pierangelo Masarati
> mailto:pierangelo.masarati@sys-net.it
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Pierangelo Masarati
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> 
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