Fwd: mech_step takes long to return

[Aditya Khasnis]

Hi Igor,

Don't think its the LDAP server, for queries that do not use SASL, we get 
results in no time, the server behaves correctly.

In the LDAP server trace statements, I see that the LDAP server calls the 
function sasl_server_start() and then its a long time before the next 
statement is executed.

I have put debug statements in the server.c file and it shows that it takes a 
long time to come back from mech_step().

The parameters passed to the SASL functions as also correct as we receive a 
response from SASL after sometime.

I am not completely denying that the problem could be in the server but the 
current set of traces make me think that its something to do with the SASL 
and AIX 5.2

I missed mentioning an interesting piece of information, the same code and the 
same library works fine with AIX 5.1 and AIX 4.3, its only with AIX 5.2 that 
we see this problem. All other platforms, Solaris, HP-UX, Linux work fine 
with the present code.

Regards,
Aditya

-----Original Message----- 
 Re: Fwd: mech_step takes long to return 
 From : Igor Brezac <igor at ypass.net> 
 To: aditya.khasnis at criticalpath.net 
 CC: cyrus-devel at lists.andrew.cmu.edu 
 Date: Tuesday 23 October 2007 18:15 


> Aditya Khasnis wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > We have a LDAP server that uses Cyrus SASL library v 1.5.27.
> >
> > On AIX 5.2, we observe that the SASL searches take long to return. The
> > behavior is such that the first SASL search that we fire returns fast but
> > the subsequent search takes long time to return.
> >
> > I have tried to debug SASL library and in the place where it takes long
> > is the function sasl_server_start(), and exact location is line 1205.
> >
> > It will be great if you great if you could provide us any guidance to
> > debug the problem. The mechanism we are using in the search is
> > DIGEST-MD5.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Aditya
>
> This looks like your ldap queries are slow.  I suggest you look at your
> ldap server config...
>
> -Igor