Would an incoming spam mail with a couple of hundred address in the TO: do it?
Ben "David Stults" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Check CPU usage and such on your LDAP server -- are you doing any periodic >large queries? OpenLDAP doesn't deal well with large queries -- it'll >pretty much stop answering all other queries until it finishes with the big >one. I have a script that runs periodically which dumps a lot of entries >from the database -- while it's happening, slapd stops POP3 authentications >for a bit. Luckly for me, it only lasts about 4 or 5 seconds. > >Dave > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Ben R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 9:18 PM >Subject: wierd problem > > >> We are having a wierd problem with qmail-ldap (I think it may be more >slapd related) >> what we are seeing is qmail-ldap will "pause" doing a user lookup. It will >still accept pop3 >> sessions but no authentication will take place for close to 2 minutes, >then everything >> goes great for another two hours or so, during this pause time incomming >mail is >> delivered to the queue then moved to the user's maildir so we are not >loosing mail (good >> thing) but users are starting to complain about loggin in ;-) We are using >qmail-1.03 with >> the ldap patch (ver. 20011001a) and OpenLDAP 2.0.15 on FreeBSD 4.3. >Anyone ever >> seen a problem like this? >> >> Ben >> >
