Re: Searches causing disk writes

[Christopher Wood <christopher_wood@pobox.com>]

In that case, strace/ltrace/dtrace/etc. on the slapd process will show you what the process itself is doing.

On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 08:22:38PM +0800, Adam Wale wrote:
> iotop shows me that the slapd process is doing the writing, I'm trying to identify what exactly it's writing, and if there's a way I can prevent it
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: openldap-technical-bounces@OpenLDAP.org [openldap-technical-bounces@OpenLDAP.org] On Behalf Of Christopher Wood [christopher_wood@pobox.com]
> Sent: Saturday, 29 October 2011 11:30 AM
> To: openldap-technical@openldap.org
> Subject: Re: Searches causing disk writes
> 
> Perhaps use iotop while you do a big search?
> 
> On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 11:11:44AM +0800, Adam Wale wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thanks for the response, unfortunately we are already using loglevel 0, and are not using slapd -d.
> >
> > ________________________________________
> > 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.
> >
> > --
> > Hallvard
> >
> >
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