Re: slapadd and attribute value length limit

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Jon Roberts wrote:

> I've seen this before, but now it's a real problem. Is there a limit 
> to the length of an indexed attribute value?

There are no hardcoded limits. Judging from the error message you 
received, since the BDB library ran out of memory you may be able to 
resolve this by increasing your BDB cache size. Also you may get some 
more explicit information from BDB if you enable debugging (-d1) while 
running slapadd.

> Using RH 9, OL 2.2.5, BDB 4.2.52. I am updating my gospel example, but 
> when I run:
>
> # slapadd -l gospel.ldif
>
> I get
>
> slapadd: could not add entry 
> dn="gospid=GVMattC14V15,ou=Gospel,ou=Expressions,o=mentata.com" 
> (line=9405): txn_aborted! Cannot allocate memory (12)
>
>
> and DB_CONFIG is
>
> set_lg_dir      /var/log/openldap
> set_lg_max      104857600
> set_lg_bsize    26214400
> set_cachesize 0 10485760 1
>
> As you can see, it loads a number of verses fine. It seems to get 
> stuck on the longer ones. What do I need to change (besides OS and OL 
> version :) ) to get this data loaded and indexed?
>
> Jon Roberts
> www.mentata.com


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