[Dovecot] ldap_search() failed "Server Busy"

Paul Carter-Brown paul.carter-brown at smilecoms.com
Fri Jun 5 11:08:54 EEST 2009


Thanks Timo,

Dovecot would not boot without count=1 but i did change the settings to
cache authentications and we cant reproduce the error any more.

Thanks for your help!

Paul


-----Original Message-----
From: Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>
To: Paul Carter-Brown <paul.carter-brown at smilecoms.com>
Cc: dovecot at dovecot.org
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] ldap_search() failed "Server Busy"
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:56:35 -0400


On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 22:23 +0200, Paul Carter-Brown wrote:
> Jun  4 18:30:59 ug1s02-zone1 dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error]
> auth(default): ldap(0202934816 at ug.smilecoms.com,10.31.3.13):
> ldap_search() failed (filter (uid=0202934816 at ug.smilecoms.com)): Server
> is busy
> 
> We are authenticating against sun directory server yet see no errors in
> the directory server and it seems to be under low load. Any ideas if
> there is something on dovecot we should tune to erradicate this? We are
> running a web front end on top of dovecot and hence have a lot of
> login/logout happening as the user navigates around.

Oh, and enabling auth cache would probably solve this too, since most
auths wouldn't go to LDAP then.



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