Re: slapd.conf threads setting

[Joshua E Warchol <jwarchol@dsl.net>]

Does anyone know which parameters determine how many connections
slapd will take? This MyDoom virus is hammering my postfix servers 
and their processes are throttling when they can't get connections
to the directory. 

Thanks for any advice.

On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 03:44:23PM -0500, Joshua E Warchol wrote:
> I'm in the process of troubleshooting a slow-down of my 
> Postfix+Courier+OpenLDAP servers after a fairly large
> increase in users. I won't get OT regarding the specifics,
> but I'm interested in knowing how the number of threads
> OpenLDAP runs relates to the number of queries it can 
> handle. Increasing the setting seems to result in the 
> setting + 3 slapd processes. It seems only one shows high
> load, suggesting they the threads are not the problem. 
> 
> Server is a bit dated. OpenLDAP 2.0.21 (custom compile of 
> RH's RPM. Added BDB to the configure as GDBM was unstable).
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -- 
> Joshua Warchol
> UNIX Systems Administrator
> DSL.net

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Joshua Warchol
UNIX Systems Administrator
DSL.net