2009/4/17, [email protected] <[email protected]>: > 2009/4/17, [email protected] <[email protected]>: > > 2009/4/17, Quanah Gibson-Mount <[email protected]>: > > > --On Friday, April 17, 2009 10:25 PM +0300 [email protected] wrote: > > > > Why do you have so many threads configured? How many cpu's do you > > > > have?? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I have tried openldap-2.4.16 (latest) BDB 4.7.25 with all patches from > > > > > Oracle on Dell AMD64 RAM 4Gb, 8 CPUs, OS Solaris 10. > > > > > > > > > > > > > I have an application which generates heavy load in slapd (many > > > > ldap_search'es and very very many ldap_add, ldap_modify, ldap_delete). > > > > BDB databases are situated on separate disk and BDB logs are on the > > > > other > > > > disk. But slapd performance (I mean time to answer) still cuts > > > > down during large disk IO periods 'cause these disks are used by other > > > > applications at the same time. And so I have increased number of threads > > > > from the defaults threads=32 up to 64, just to save some time for my > > > > application which requires not more then 30 ms for one search to > > > > complete. > > > > Just to be sure I have tried the default settings for threads and it's > > > > behaviour didn't changed - slapd heap memory just continuously grows (I > > > > have seen through pmap)... > > > > Also I have tried libtcmalloc which is usually recommended and solaris > > > > built in' libmtmalloc, but it didn't helped. > > > > > > > > > > Please copy replies to the bug tracker if you expect help. > > > > > > I will note that every thread consumes a large chunk of memory. I will > > > also > > > note that the default is 16 threads, not 32. I will also note, that as > > > far > > > as read operations are concerned, usually *fewer* threads is faster, not > > > more. > > >You appear to have quite an excessive amount of threads configured. > > > > > > I have mentioned that using the defaults didn't helped. Probably I was > mistaken about the default number of threads - but if keywords > "threads" is missing in config it simply means the defaults, right? > May be number of threads should be lower then the defaults (e.g. 6 or 8)? >
Now I have 8 threads and slapd grows upto 2GB limit in 6 hours.
