Thanks for the response. What if I disable the alock file generation in the back-bdb initialization? will it affect other functionalities like replication etc.
You should understand what the alock file is for before you think about deleting it. It tracks the state of your database. If your slapcat is hanging, it sounds like you have DB corruption at the BDB level.
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