Re: Question on number of slapd process running on my system

["Alan Sparks" <asparks@doublesparks.net>]

Frequently asked question.  Presuming you're running Linux.
Slapd is multithreaded.  Threads show up in the the ps listing along with
the other processes.
-Alan

Jason Williams said:
> Hello everyone.
>
> Im running samba 2.2.8a as my PDC as well as openldap 2.0.12 on the
> backend  to hold my user accounts.
> I just recently rolled this out.
> Today, I logged in and did a quick ps -aux to see what is going on.
>
> I was surprised to see a number of slapd processes running:
>
> ldap     10800  0.0  0.1 16980 3636 ?        S    14:55   0:00 [slapd]
> ldap     10801  0.0  0.1 16980 3636 ?        S    14:55   0:00 [slapd]
> ldap     10805  0.0  0.1 16980 3636 ?        S    14:55   0:00 [slapd]
> ldap     10807  0.0  0.1 16980 3636 ?        S    14:56   0:00 [slapd]
> ldap     10808  0.0  0.1 16980 3636 ?        S    14:56   0:00 [slapd]
> ldap     10810  0.0  0.1 16980 3636 ?        S    14:58   0:00 [slapd]
> ldap     10811  0.0  0.1 16980 3636 ?        S    15:00   0:00 [slapd]
>
>
> This is just a snip, but there were more, probably about 6-8 more.
>
> My question is, is this normal? Or should it be lower or higher?
>
> I was not sure exactly about this so I thought i'd seek help.
>
> I appreciate everyones input.
>
> Jason


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Alan Sparks, UNIX/Linux Systems Administrator    <asparks@doublesparks.net>