LDAP-qmail problem !!!!

["Abhishek Pandey" <apandey@hclinsys.com>]

hi,
i have installed openldap-1.2.11 on Red Hat 6.2. i have installed mail
server with qmail-ldap-1.03-20000701 patch on another machine.
it was working fine till now, but suddenly the mail delivery got slow.
on slave ldap a lot of slapd processes (around 50 to 90) are created. A
ldapsearch is talking lot of time to show the output. Is it due the load of
the mail server??? (only mail server is talking to  this slave ldap).

why so many slapd process are being created??? Is there any way to control
the no. of connections to LDAP??? the system is also running very slow.

thanks in advance,

regds,
abhishek