[Kolab-devel] idletimeout in slapd.conf

[Andreas Hasenack]

On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 10:41:39AM +0200, Martin Konold wrote:
> Am Donnerstag 18 August 2005 21:15 schrieb Andreas Hasenack:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 09:07:05PM +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> > > > Increasing the idletimeout makes this better, but is no fix. Adding
> > > > "LDAP_Persistent_G off" to the apache conf fixes it at the expense of
> > > > an increased load on the ldap server.
> > > >
> > > > So, I was just wondering if somebody else saw this ;)
> > > > I guess I'll try to patch the apache module to behave better.
> > >
> > > I haven't seen it so far.
> > > What are the symtoms I would see, if I hit that issue?
> >
> > The module falls back to anonymous login, so suddenly some things don't
> > work as expected anymore. I experienced many intermitent freebusy
> > failures until I figured this out.
> 
> But this means it is a bug in the apache module and should be fixed there 
> instead of trying to hide the issue by increasing the idle timeout value.

What I did was disable persistent connections. But I agree it's a bug in
the module. saslauthd from cyrus-sasl also had this bug in earlier
versions when dealing with connections dropped due to idletimeout.