RE: Problems with openldap-2.1.22 slowing down over time.

["Lawrence, Mike (White Plains)" <Mike.Lawrence@starwoodhotels.com>]

Howard - maybe you don't realize it but you come off sounding quite
arrogant and demeaning with some of your replies to people.  Read
and think before you click the send button next time.

-----Original Message-----
From: Howard Chu [mailto:hyc@symas.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 4:02 PM
To: 'Matthew Schumacher'; openldap-software@openldap.org
Subject: RE: Problems with openldap-2.1.22 slowing down over time.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
> [mailto:owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org]On Behalf Of Matthew
Schumacher

> Looks like I'm not the only one with index corruption/slow
> down issues.
>   Which debugging level shows backend and index interactions?  1024?

Read the slapd(8) manpage.

> What can I do to track this down?

Read the Sleepycat documentation.

> Perhaps this is a bdb tuning issue, but I would think that the
> performance would be terrible all of the time, not just after we have
> been running for a week.

No. The BDB cache fills gradually as you process requests, it is not
preloaded all at once. Use "db_stat -m" and see what your cache is doing,
don't just sit there guessing in the dark.

  -- Howard Chu
  Chief Architect, Symas Corp.       Director, Highland Sun
  http://www.symas.com               http://highlandsun.com/hyc
  Symas: Premier OpenSource Development and Support
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