Re: openldap service stop cause database corruption

On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Brandon Hume wrote:

> You're running a large process on a low-memory machine.  I strongly
> suspect CentOS isn't giving slapd enough time to shut down properly.

I think you've hit this head on. The only other suggestion I might make is 
to consider the checkpointing configuration as described in slapd-bdb(5) 
man page. As a rule of thumb, more frequent checkpoints mean that the time 
to flush at shutdown is decreased.