Bug#311491: slapd stops functioning almost completely if a CPU consuming process runs at the same time

2005-06-02 Thread Ulrich Hermisson
On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Torsten Landschoff wrote: Hi Ulrich, [...] That's unlikely to happen. And, BTW: I guess this bug is also a problem with the current linux kernel. Somebody on linux-kernel pointed out that he got 10% CPU usage by having 3 processes talk to each other in a ring inside an endles

Bug#311491: slapd stops functioning almost completely if a CPU consuming process runs at the same time

2005-06-02 Thread Ulf Rehmann
| Talking about severities: We will not delay sarge because slapd has a | performance problem for one user.=20 I guess this is a disputable decision. This makes sarge unusable for an ldap server. Our whole ldap system (a few hundred users involved) was repeatedly blocked by this bug, because

Bug#311491: slapd stops functioning almost completely if a CPU consuming process runs at the same time

2005-06-02 Thread Torsten Landschoff
Hi Ulrich, On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 07:10:08PM +0200, Ulrich Hermisson wrote: > I would be very happy with either kind of solution. Since the package, in > its current state, cannot be used by us and, as I presume, many other > people, it would be a big improvement if the problem were solved b

Bug#311491: slapd stops functioning almost completely if a CPU consuming process runs at the same time

2005-06-01 Thread Ulrich Hermisson
On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Torsten Landschoff wrote: On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 12:16:05PM +0200, Ulrich Hermisson wrote: from www.openldap.org (compiled with "--enable-crypt"). Only when I compile with the configure option "--with-threads=no", everything is ok, but the slurpd needs threads. With thread

Bug#311491: slapd stops functioning almost completely if a CPU consuming process runs at the same time

2005-06-01 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 12:16:05PM +0200, Ulrich Hermisson wrote: > from www.openldap.org (compiled with "--enable-crypt"). Only when I > compile with the configure option "--with-threads=no", everything is > ok, but the slurpd needs threads. With threads, also the test 17 > performed by "make te

Bug#311491: slapd stops functioning almost completely if a CPU consuming process runs at the same time

2005-06-01 Thread Ulrich Hermisson
Package: slapd Version: 2.2.23-5 Severity: important The slapd almost stops working while a CPU consuming process like the one started by echo 3^ | bc & is running on the same machine. That is: a query (e.g. querying a passwd database by pam_ldap) which is answered immediately (i.e. less