Re: (ITS#5354) slapd repeatedly hangs and stops reponding

[h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no]

quanah@zimbra.com writes:
>># TRY TO SOLVE ISSUES ?
>> threads         32
>> idletimeout     30
>
> You are likely making your problem worse by increasing the number of
> threads.  I always advise a setting of "threads 8" in a high read,
> low-to-medium write scenario.  The more threads you have, the worse
> the read rate, but the better the write rate.

Our site had even more threads because that reduced the number of
operations which would take a long time even time out.  I don't know
why, if threads could sometimes be blocked on client input or DNS
lookups or what.

-- 
Hallvard