Re: openldap 2.4.16 hangs with dncachesize smaller than max number of records

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> --On Wednesday, June 17, 2009 5:25 AM -0700 Rodrigo Costa
> <rlvcosta@yahoo.com>  wrote:
>
> > Could this be a configuration issue? I do not think but I'm putting
> > below my cache configuration :

Clearly it is a configuration issue.

> > # Cache values
> > cachesize       10000
> > dncachesize     3000000
> > idlcachesize    10000
> > cachefree       10
>
> These values are extremely low (except for dncachesize) for a system with 4
> million records.  I'd expect something more like:
>
> cachesize 4000000
> dncachesize 3000000

dncachesize must always be >= cachesize

> idlcachesize 8000000
> cachefree 100000
>
> or something along those lines.  Particularly in the case of your
> ldapsearch, cachesize is likely the most relevant.  Try playing with the
> settings a bit more.

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