Honestly I think this is a problem with FreeBSD. I have never seen this problem on my Solaris or Linux systems, and I run 16 Solaris systems right now (although in earlier releases, I did see slapd not die for other reasons).
Are your linux/solaris systems AMD64? (PC Solaris?!)
--Quanah
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