RE: Searches causing disk writes

[Adam Wale <adamw@staff.iinet.net.au>]

Hi,

Thanks for the response, unfortunately we are already using loglevel 0, and are not using slapd -d.

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From: Hallvard Breien Furuseth [h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no]
Sent: Saturday, 29 October 2011 8:47 AM
To: Adam Wale
Cc: openldap-technical@openldap.org
Subject: Re: Searches causing disk writes

Adam Wale writes:
> I'm observing an issue where a large number of searches against an
> openldap server results in a large amount of disk writes occurring.

Maybe you have set a high loglevel in slapd.conf, or you are using the
slapd '-d' argument.

Loglevel is what gets logged to syslog.  Default logevel is 'stats'
(256), which gives a few lines per LDAP request.  Some years ago our
site had to set loglevel=0 because it could not handle all the
syslogging, but a hardware upgrade fixed that.  Default syslog
user.level=local4.debug, see man slapd.

> The hosts have plenty of free RAM and are not using any swap. I have
> disabled the monitor backend but haven't seen much of an improvement
> by doing this, given the monitor database is instantiated at startup
> is this stored in memory? (if not, why not make that an option?)

Yes, monitor is memory-only.

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Hallvard