Hi Andrey,
See comments below...
I guess we don't follow the same principles :-) For the most part these are all minor RFE's except for Rust, but Rust has been in use in our product (1.4.x series) for well over a year now, so I'm surprised to see issues arise about it now. But adding these RFE's is not out of line IMHO, obviously you feel a little different about that.Hi,
I'd like to discuss several recent (since a couple of months) commits in stable branches of 389ds. I will be talking about 1.4.4 https://github.com/389ds/389-ds-base/tree/389-ds-base-1.4.4 since it's the one we are using in production, but i think it's the same for 1.4.3. These commits are welcome and go in the right direction, however the changes they produce are not something one expects when the server version changes in 4th digit (ex. 1.4.4.17 -> 1.4.4.18). Here they are:
1) Some database files [presumable memory-mapped files that are ok to be lost at reboot] that were previously in /var/lib/dirsrv/slapd-instance/db/ are now moved to /dev/shm/slapd-instance/. This modification seems to work fine (and should increase performance), however there is an error message at server startup when /dev/shm is empty (for example, after each OS reboot) when the server needs to create the files:[03/Dec/2021:12:12:14.887200364 +0100] - ERR - bdb_version_write - Could not open file "/dev/shm/slapd-model/DBVERSION" for writing Netscape Portable Runtime -5950 (File not found.)
After the next 389ds restart this ERR message does not appear, but it appears after each OS reboot (since /dev/shm is cleaned up after each reboot).
We can look into modifying this behavior, especially since it's
not a fatal error. We can change the logging severity to NOTICE
(from ERR) or something like that.
To be honest error log messages should not be expected to be static. As work is done to the server logging messages are added/removed and/or changed all the time, and that's not going to change. Now I know when we added the "wtime" and "optime" to the access logging that did cause some issues for Admins who parse our access logs. We could have done better with communicating this change (live and learn). But at the same time this new logging is tremendously useful, and has helped many customers troubleshoot various performance issues. So while these changes can be disruptive we felt the pro's outweighed the cons.
In this case using /var/run was outdated and was causing issues with systemd/tmpfiles on RHEL, and moving it to /run was the correct thing to do. What I don't understand is why adding the option to set the LDAPI path in the INF file is a problem. Can you elaborate on that please?
2) UNIX socket of the server was moved to /run/slapd-instance.socket, a new keyword in .inf file for dscreate ("ldapi") has appeared.
Works fine, but it had an impact on our scripts that use ldapi socket path.
This was a very important fix to get into 1.4.4, usually big changes do not land in 1.4.4 anymore, but this one needed to get in.
3) A new default plugin requirement, the plugin being written in Rust - probably its introduction is FIPS-related (Issue 3584 - Fix PBKDF2_SHA256 hashing in FIPS mode).
See my comment https://github.com/389ds/389-ds-base/issues/5008#issuecomment-983759224. Rust becomes a requirement for building the server, which is fine, but then it should be enabled by default in "./configure". Without it the server does not compile the new plugin and complains about it when starting:
[01/Dec/2021:12:54:04.460194603 +0100] - ERR - symload_report_error - Could not open library "/Local/dirsrv/lib/dirsrv/plugins/libpwdchan-plugin.so" for plugin PBKDF2
Yes I do understand this frustration, and it is now fixed for
non-rust builds.
In our specfile we do enable Rust by default (and have for over a year now), so I guess you don't use our specfile (389-ds-base/rpm/389-ds-base.spec.in) as a reference for building your server. Also we have discussed moving to Rust on the public devel mailing list for along time now, so if you are not on this list (389-devel) then I strongly suggest you, or anyone who builds the server for themselves, to subscribe to it. Again, we probably could have communicated this more "loudly".
[03/Dec/2021:14:41:38.946206385 +0100] - INFO - main - Setting the maximum file descriptor limit to: 64000
[03/Dec/2021:14:41:38.951185055 +0100] - ERR - allow_operation - Component identity is NULL
[03/Dec/2021:14:41:38.951846429 +0100] - ERR - allow_operation - Component identity is NULL
[03/Dec/2021:14:41:39.546909815 +0100] - INFO - PBKDF2_SHA256 - Based on CPU performance, chose 2048 rounds
[03/Dec/2021:14:41:39.566959933 +0100] - INFO - ldbm_instance_config_cachememsize_set - force a minimal value 512000
...
Thank you and keep up the good work, we use 389ds in production since 2007 and we are quite happy with it :)
Great to hear, and it is always nice working with you Andrey.
You never get too upset about most issues :-)
Anyway as for 1.4.4 we are not planning any other major changes with it. Any performance/stability improvements will be backported, but that should be it at this stage of 1.4.4 (well there are some nice UI changes coming). But 2.x is very dynamic, and 2.1 will be a big change with our move to LMDB.
Please feel free to continue this conversation. Maybe others on
this list have some input/comments as well. We always appreciate
feedback, good or bad, and we try to work with everyone
and their needs.
Thanks,
Mark
Regards,
Andrey
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