Re: openldap openldap-2.0.25 using 700M of RAM

[Adam Williams <adam@morrison-ind.com>]

>I have an openldap server (2.0.25) on a redhat linux box (kernel
>2.4.18-4smp) with 2 gigs of ram serving an ldap directory with about
>4000 records.  The directory has a considerable amount of load because a
>mail server is matching email addresses against it.
>Anyway, the ldap processes are collectively using 740MB of RAM on the
>system as shown by the process list below.
>>Is this memory usage normal?  Why does open ldap use so much memory?

It is useing 92Mb of RAM, not 740

> root     15472  0.0  1.0 92708 21168 ?       S    Jul11   0:00
> /usr/local/libexec/slapd

What you are see-ing is multiple threads,  they all show up as the same
size as they are the same process.  But they are all sharing the same
block of memeory.