Re: LDAP performance slow intermittently

Quanah Gibson-Mount <[email protected]> Thu, 20 May 2010 07:57:08 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.network.openldap.general
Message-ID <D769A28F6F379FDF33FC19D0@[192.168.1.2]>
--On Wednesday, May 19, 2010 5:42 PM -0400 Khoa Nguyen 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> My LDAP server (version 2.3.43) performance is quite erratic; for a few
> minutes, search operations are lightning fast, and then it slows down to
> several seconds for a single search, and then it is fast again, etc.
>
> I am not sure how to troubleshoot/determine the root cause of this
> intermittent problem. Any suggestions are appreciated.

Your email is very vague, for example, no idea what backend you are using 
(hdb/bdb/sql, etc).  But generally I would check the cachesize & 
idlcachesize setting in slapd.conf, and I would ensure I have a properly 
configured DB_CONFIG file if it is back-bdb or back-hdb.

--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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