RE: Help tweaking settings so slapd is not writing to disk so much

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>]

--On Wednesday, March 07, 2012 12:36 AM +0100 Marc <M.Roos@roosit.eu> wrote:

> The filesystem is already mounted with no atime.(but it is a vmware
> guest, with ide drive this still needs to be fixed)
>
> I read the slapd-bdb man page and I get now that slapd's conf is
> complementing the DB_CONFIG file. But with setting this  olcDbShmKey to
> 1 (removed it from DB_CONFIG). I am not seeing the slapd process
> constantly in iotop -o. Why is it not good to set this?

olcDbShmKey applies to a cn=config configured slapd.  You use "shmkey" for 
a slapd.conf configured slapd.  Read the man page carefully.

--Quanah



--

Quanah Gibson-Mount
Sr. Member of Technical Staff
Zimbra, Inc
A Division of VMware, Inc.
--------------------
Zimbra ::  the leader in open source messaging and collaboration