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Re: alock File Keeps LDAP (slapd) from Starting Up



On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 06:24:55PM -0700, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:

>>No, it didn't fix the speed problem.  When using the ldbm backend, the
>>machine sits at load around 0.1 and 2% or 3% cpu usage.  I switch to bdb
>>backend and my load jumps to 14 or so, searches take seconds to complete
>>(of course slows down as the load gets higher).  At that point, the
>>acceptance of new incoming connects gets degraded enough that it drops
>>out of the load balancer until OpenLDAP catches up on things.  In short,
>>I wasn't able to get it to work.  I had to go back to ldbm.  I'll keep
>>hacking away at it.
>Well, since you are using a version of BDB that is recommended you not use, 
>all bets are off.  On my AMD boxes, I get some 13,000 searches/second using 
>BDB as the backend (bdb 4.2.52+patches) on a 1 million entry database.

I have db-4.2.52 installed with openldap-2.2.28, sorry I didn't make
that more clear.  I rolled the 2.3.* version back to 2.2.28 with
db-4.2.52.

>As for your conf file, I don't see any idlcachesize setting.

I will investigate this one and figure out what to put there.  I'll dig
through the openldap faqomatic.

>As for DB_CONFIG, a general rule to start with is:
>Cache size should be size of id2entry.bdb + 10%, which in your case means 
>your DB_CONFIG file is not set up correctly for the cachesize.
I'm looking for docs on it.  Nothing is installed, so I'll unzip the
tarball and see if I can find it in there.  

>52428800 (your cache size setting) vs 64372736 (size of your id2entry.bdb 
>file)

If increasing that makes a difference, I'll be quite happy.  I'll try it
again this afternoon.

Thanks for the notes.
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Regards...		Todd
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