<quote who="Toby Blake"> > Hi there, > > Firstly, many thanks for the replies... > >> Hi Toby. >> >>> For largely historical reasons we run slapd servers on most clients >>> (this will probably change in the future - I'm just giving this >>> information as background). >> >> Why? > > Why will this change or why did we do it in the first place? I wasn't > party to these decisions at the time, so I can't really comment on the > reasons for them. I could speculate wildly, but I'd prefer not to. > >>> We're seeing problems when some of these >>> machines are busy, particularly, it seems, with memory intensive >>> activity, although it's hard to substantiate as I generally only see >>> the machines after they've broken. It's annoying as I can't reproduce >>> these problems. >> >> It's going to be hard to pin point then ;-) How much memory/CPU >> etc. do these clients have and what other services do they provide? > > They're typically desktop or lab machines for academics, students, > etc. Hardware-wise they're Dell desktop boxes of a few years old - a > 2.4GHz processor with 512MB of memory is typical. Something I should > have mentioned is that they're running Fedora Core 5, with a few > running FC6.
Any chance of moving to one central Directory server on proper hardware, with proper resources? btw, are the desktops replicas of a central master? >> >> I hope you mean 5, as there are only 5 listed on the Oracle site. > > As Quanah said, there are 6. I still only see 5 at: http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/berkeley-db/db/update/4.2.52/patch.4.2.52.html Gavin.
