hi there, Could you please compare your values? I wonder what amount of slapd threads are usual for slapd? Can I configure this? Is it advisable at all?
On our machines "ps faux" shows these 36 slapd entries: > # ps faux |grep slapd |unexpand -a |cut -f2-3,6- |expand > 502 0.0 2.2 91272 20488 ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/slapd -h ldap:/// ldaps:/// > 506 0.0 2.2 91272 20488 ? 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/slapd -h ldap:/// ldaps:/// > 507 0.0 2.2 91272 20488 ? 2:29 \_ /usr/sbin/slapd -h ldap:/// ldaps:/// > 585 0.0 2.2 91272 20488 ? 2:23 \_ /usr/sbin/slapd -h ldap:/// ldaps:/// > 592 0.0 2.2 91272 20488 ? 2:16 \_ /usr/sbin/slapd -h ldap:/// ldaps:/// > 594 0.0 2.2 91272 20488 ? 2:24 \_ /usr/sbin/slapd -h ldap:/// ldaps:/// > 753 0.0 2.2 91272 20488 ? 2:21 \_ /usr/sbin/slapd -h ldap:/// ldaps:/// > 754 0.0 2.2 91272 20488 ? 2:26 \_ /usr/sbin/slapd -h ldap:/// ldaps:/// > 755 0.0 2.2 91272 20488 ? 2:14 \_ /usr/sbin/slapd -h ldap:/// ldaps:/// > 972 0.0 2.2 91272 20488 ? 2:05 \_ /usr/sbin/slapd -h ldap:/// ldaps:/// > 3141 0.0 2.2 91272 20488 ? 1:59 \_ /usr/sbin/slapd -h ldap:/// ldaps:/// > 3142 0.0 2.2 91272 20488 ? 2:04 \_ /usr/sbin/slapd -h ldap:/// ldaps:/// > 3143 0.0 2.2 91272 20488 ? 2:07 \_ /usr/sbin/slapd -h ldap:/// ldaps:/// > 5013 0.0 2.2 91272 20488 ? 2:03 \_ /usr/sbin/slapd -h ldap:/// ldaps:/// > 5015 0.0 2.2 91272 20488 ? 1:55 \_ /usr/sbin/slapd -h ldap:/// ldaps:/// > 5017 0.0 2.2 91272 20488 ? 1:55 \_ /usr/sbin/slapd -h ldap:/// ldaps:/// > 5223 0.0 2.2 91272 20488 ? 2:19 \_ /usr/sbin/slapd -h ldap:/// ldaps:/// > 5224 0.0 2.2 91272 20488 ? 2:30 \_ /usr/sbin/slapd -h ldap:/// ldaps:/// > 5225 0.0 2.2 91272 20488 ? 2:12 \_ /usr/sbin/slapd -h ldap:/// ldaps:/// > 5267 0.0 2.2 91272 20488 ? 1:57 \_ /usr/sbin/slapd -h ldap:/// ldaps:/// > 5268 0.0 2.2 91272 20488 ? 2:15 \_ /usr/sbin/slapd -h ldap:/// ldaps:/// > 6900 0.0 2.2 91272 20488 ? 1:48 \_ /usr/sbin/slapd -h ldap:/// ldaps:/// > 6901 0.0 2.2 91272 20488 ? 1:55 \_ /usr/sbin/slapd -h ldap:/// ldaps:/// > 6908 0.0 2.2 91272 20488 ? 2:05 \_ /usr/sbin/slapd -h ldap:/// ldaps:/// > 6909 0.0 2.2 91272 20488 ? 1:58 \_ /usr/sbin/slapd -h ldap:/// ldaps:/// > 8860 0.0 2.2 91272 20488 ? 1:56 \_ /usr/sbin/slapd -h ldap:/// ldaps:/// > 8917 0.0 2.2 91272 20488 ? 1:47 \_ /usr/sbin/slapd -h ldap:/// ldaps:/// > 8918 0.0 2.2 91272 20488 ? 1:56 \_ /usr/sbin/slapd -h ldap:/// ldaps:/// > 8924 0.0 2.2 91272 20488 ? 1:51 \_ /usr/sbin/slapd -h ldap:/// ldaps:/// > 10853 0.0 2.2 91272 20488 ? 1:58 \_ /usr/sbin/slapd -h ldap:/// ldaps:/// > 10854 0.0 2.2 91272 20488 ? 1:47 \_ /usr/sbin/slapd -h ldap:/// ldaps:/// > 12963 0.0 2.2 91272 20488 ? 1:54 \_ /usr/sbin/slapd -h ldap:/// ldaps:/// > 12964 0.0 2.2 91272 20488 ? 1:59 \_ /usr/sbin/slapd -h ldap:/// ldaps:/// > 12965 0.0 2.2 91272 20488 ? 1:42 \_ /usr/sbin/slapd -h ldap:/// ldaps:/// > 13001 0.0 2.2 91272 20488 ? 1:57 \_ /usr/sbin/slapd -h ldap:/// ldaps:/// > slapd at the same time uses a lot of memory: # top bn1 |sort -n +4 |tail -36 4983 proxy 9 0 19096 16M 7964 S 0.0 1.9 2:19 squid 10853 root 9 0 20852 20M 5152 S 0.0 2.2 1:58 slapd 10854 root 9 0 20852 20M 5152 S 0.0 2.2 1:47 slapd 12963 root 9 0 20852 20M 5152 S 0.0 2.2 1:54 slapd 12964 root 9 0 20852 20M 5152 S 0.0 2.2 1:59 slapd 12965 root 9 0 20852 20M 5152 S 0.0 2.2 1:42 slapd 13001 root 9 0 20852 20M 5152 S 0.0 2.2 1:57 slapd 3141 root 9 0 20852 20M 5152 S 0.0 2.2 1:59 slapd 3142 root 9 0 20852 20M 5152 S 0.0 2.2 2:04 slapd 3143 root 9 0 20852 20M 5152 S 0.0 2.2 2:07 slapd 5013 root 9 0 20852 20M 5152 S 0.0 2.2 2:03 slapd 5015 root 9 0 20852 20M 5152 S 0.0 2.2 1:55 slapd 5017 root 9 0 20852 20M 5152 S 0.0 2.2 1:55 slapd 502 root 9 0 20852 20M 5152 S 0.0 2.2 0:00 slapd 506 root 9 0 20852 20M 5152 S 0.0 2.2 0:00 slapd 507 root 9 0 20852 20M 5152 S 0.0 2.2 2:29 slapd 5223 root 9 0 20852 20M 5152 S 0.0 2.2 2:19 slapd 5224 root 9 0 20852 20M 5152 S 0.0 2.2 2:30 slapd 5225 root 9 0 20852 20M 5152 S 0.0 2.2 2:12 slapd 5267 root 9 0 20852 20M 5152 S 0.0 2.2 1:57 slapd 5268 root 9 0 20852 20M 5152 S 0.0 2.2 2:16 slapd 585 root 9 0 20852 20M 5152 S 0.0 2.2 2:23 slapd 592 root 9 0 20852 20M 5152 S 0.0 2.2 2:16 slapd 594 root 9 0 20852 20M 5152 S 0.0 2.2 2:24 slapd 6900 root 9 0 20852 20M 5152 S 0.0 2.2 1:48 slapd 6901 root 9 0 20852 20M 5152 S 0.0 2.2 1:55 slapd 6908 root 9 0 20852 20M 5152 S 0.0 2.2 2:05 slapd 6909 root 9 0 20852 20M 5152 S 0.0 2.2 1:58 slapd 753 root 9 0 20852 20M 5152 S 0.0 2.2 2:21 slapd 754 root 9 0 20852 20M 5152 S 0.0 2.2 2:26 slapd 755 root 9 0 20852 20M 5152 S 0.0 2.2 2:14 slapd 8860 root 9 0 20852 20M 5152 S 0.0 2.2 1:56 slapd 8917 root 9 0 20852 20M 5152 S 0.0 2.2 1:47 slapd 8918 root 9 0 20852 20M 5152 S 0.0 2.2 1:56 slapd 8924 root 9 0 20852 20M 5152 S 0.0 2.2 1:51 slapd 972 root 9 0 20852 20M 5152 S 0.0 2.2 2:05 slapd top bn1 |head -8 17:33:18 up 4 days, 5:54, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.06, 0.48 135 processes: 134 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 1.4% user, 0.5% system, 0.0% nice, 98.1% idle Mem: 905368K total, 854436K used, 50932K free, 269760K buffers Swap: 1835000K total, 23940K used, 1811060K free, 38476K cached

