Re: dn cache size exceeds the limits

[Pavlos Parissis <p_pavlos@freemail.gr>]

On Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:32:56 -0700
Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com> wrote:

> --On Thursday, October 02, 2008 9:33 AM -0700 Quanah Gibson-Mount 
> <quanah@zimbra.com> wrote:
> 
> > --On Thursday, October 02, 2008 11:07 AM +0300 Pavlos Parissis
> > <p_pavlos@freemail.gr> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> During performance testing with SLAMD we noticed the dncache exceeds the
> >> limit. As a result the system starts to swap a lot and the responses of
> >> slapd are very slow.

[...snip...]
> >>
> >> olmBDBEntryCache: 398306
> >> olmBDBDNCache: 482001 <<==========
> >> olmBDBIDLCache: 449999
> >
> > Sounds like a bug to me, have you filed an ITS?
> 
> Actually, please read ITS#5721:
> 
> <http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/?findid=5721>
> 

Well, when I sent the mail this ITS wasn't there.

But, how long is that "temporarily" ? 
In my case it was 32000 entries more than the limit.
Isn't it too dangerous to have that "termporarily" period?

Cheers,
Pavlos