Re: OpenLDAP Memory Usage

[Tim Mooney <Tim.Mooney@ndsu.edu>]

In regard to: Re: OpenLDAP Memory Usage, Quanah Gibson-Mount said (at...:

> --On Thursday, March 17, 2011 8:06 AM -0700 Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com> wrote:
>
>
> > > This is a relatively high-volume environment, with 4 servers running
> > > with mirrormode to enable multi-master replication. The current
> > > database size is about 900mb. Is there any setting that could limit
> > > this memory usage? I don't feel this is "normal" considering our DB
> > > size and cache sizes.
> >
> > Very likely ITS#6660, you need to update to 2.4.24.
>
> Also make sure you use an alternative memory allocator if you are running on 
> Linux, such as tcmalloc from the google perf tools package, or hoard.

Can you expound a bit more on that, Quanah, or point me at some more
complete information on why using a non-default memory allocator is
beneficial for OpenLDAP on Linux?

I've been subscribed to the OpenLDAP devel and now technical mailing list
for quite a while and I don't recall seeing anything stated in such strong
terms about not using the default malloc/free on Linux.

Tim
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