[Auth_ldap] auth_ldap seems to hang randomly

[jean-jacques.de-jong at st.com]

I use a Netscape LDAP server for authentication. No OpenLDAP.

I forgot to mention that restarting Apache solves the problem for a while. This 
causes a sudden drop of the memory usage, especially the buffer memory. Then the
memory usage gradually increases and I get the problems again. Is Apache or 
auth_ldap causing a memory leak?

JJJ

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Subject: Re: [Auth_ldap] auth_ldap seems to hang randomly
Author:  dave (dave at rudedog.org) at internet
Date:    11/12/2000 17:10


<jean-jacques.de-jong at st.com> writes:

>      I am using Apache 1.3.14 with auth_ldap 1.4.0 on a Linux box to 
>      authenticate with a Netscape LDAP server.
>      
>      Often, and randomly, when I connect to a protected page, the browser 
>      just hangs after entering the password, apparently waiting for a reply 
>      from the LDAP server (or not understanding the reply?). This happens 
>      on my Linux server, but not on other servers in my corporation running 
>      Solaris...

As a guess, you're running OpenLDAP 2.0.x and have caching turned
on. There seems to be a bug with OpenLDAP2's cache implementation, but I
haven't tracked down the cause yet.

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