Re: openldap service stop cause database corruption

2009/10/6 Aaron Richton <[email protected]>:
> On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Brandon Hume wrote:
>
>> You're running a large process on a low-memory machine.  I strongly
>> suspect CentOS isn't giving slapd enough time to shut down properly.
>
> I think you've hit this head on. The only other suggestion I might make is
> to consider the checkpointing configuration as described in slapd-bdb(5) man
> page. As a rule of thumb, more frequent checkpoints mean that the time to
> flush at shutdown is decreased.
>

Hi,

for your information, there are init script and packages for CentOS
provided by LTB-project:
- http://ltb-project.org/wiki/documentation/openldap-initscript
- http://ltb-project.org/wiki/documentation/openldap-rpm

Hope this helps.

Clément.