thanks quanah for your answers
so setting set_cachesize in DB_CONFIG to something larger than the size of my DBs and then setting shm_key to something positive in slapd.conf will keep the entire DB in memory?
the relation between shm_key and set_cachesize isnt clear to me.....
shm_key tells Slapd what shared memory key to use on the system. (X)
set_cachesize tells BDB how large of a cache to create. (Y)
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