extra slapd processes?

[Charlie Sheppard <csheppar@adelphia.net>]

I have a question about slapd processes. When my machine boots up there are 6 slapd processes, like so:

> ps -AH|grep slapd
 2141 ?        00:00:00   slapd
 2152 ?        00:00:00     slapd
 2158 ?        00:00:00       slapd
 2269 ?        00:00:00       slapd
 2270 ?        00:00:00       slapd
 2271 ?        00:00:00       slapd


When I shutdown, reboot, or run "start-stop-daemon --stop" I get:

start-stop-daemon: warning: failed to kill 2270: No such process
start-stop-daemon: warning: failed to kill 2269: No such process

If I manually run "start-stop-daemon --start" I get only 3 processes and no subsequent errors. Any idea why these seemingly superfluous processes exist and how I can get rid of this error?

Thanks

Charlie