2011/1/3 Quanah Gibson-Mount <[email protected]>: > --On Monday, January 03, 2011 9:22 PM +0100 Steeg Carson > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I also used strace to catch the problem, but i did not find where the >> slapd write to disk. It seems, it comes via set up the futex write >> locks? I'm not a kernel programmer and the code from openldap is hard >> to read. But strace I use for several years to find errors, it was >> also the first choice for me, to find the error. It is not a normal >> file that will be written... > > The DB is always read off disk into the BDB backing cache the very first > time slapd is run (assuming back-bdb or back-hdb are your backends). I > don't see any bug/issue here. >
But does the slapd process during this time _write_ (heavy the whole time) to the disk? I try to check this with oprofile too, but it seems not work proper with vmware ... Thanks Steeg
