Would be good to see your slapd.conf either way.

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<quote who="Gavin Henry">
> <quote who="Garry">
>> Hi,
>>
>> on a customer box (with ~250 active users) we've noticed massive load on
>> the LDAP server ... this box is pretty well equipped (dual Xeon = 4
>> cores, w/ 6GB memory), so the box performance itself shouldn't be much
>> of a problem ... anyway, LDAP numbers are pretty disturbing at times ...
>>
>> e.g., output from top may yield something like this:
>>
>>   5261 ldap      24   0 72872  19m 1740 S  314  0.3   9:04.59 slapd
>>                                            ^^^cpu
>>
>> At those times, hardly any other processes are even in the two-digit
>> area as far as CPU goes, and if they don't usually stay that high more
>> than one or two refreshs of top.
>>
>> Needless to say that OX performance seriously goes down the drain when
>> LDAP is under that load.
>>
>> Is there any way of optimizing either LDAP, or adding any proxies/cache
>> that will aleviate the load on LDAP? I don't understand why there are so
>> many access to ldap anyway ...
>>
>> LDAP on that box is:
>>
>> [root at ox log]# slapd -V
>> @(#) $OpenLDAP: slapd 2.2.13 (Aug 13 2006 01:27:00) $
>
> This is soo old it not worth using. Please upgrade to 2.3.35. You will see
> the difference immediately, plus be able to get support via the OpenLDAP
> lists.
>
>>
>> buildcentos at build-i386:/home/buildcentos/rpmbuild/BUILD/openldap-2.2.13/openldap-2.2.13/build-servers/servers/slapd
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Help appreciated,
>>
>> -garry
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