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

["Jason C. Leach" <jleach@ocis.net>]

hi,

PS: The default in 16 of them. I have heard of the default being 
more, much more like 32 (too many for a small company). Look
in the slapd.conf man pages for your default.

j.


On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 04:39:12PM -0600, Alan Sparks wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> ===========
> Alan Sparks, UNIX/Linux Systems Administrator    <asparks@doublesparks.net>
> 
> 
> 

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