Full_Name: Sumith Narayanan Version: 2.3.27 OS: MacOSX 10.4 URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/ Submission from: (NULL) (17.216.21.198)

My openLDAP DB is divided into 3 physical DBs, each of 4 GB , 12 GB and 26 GB sizes , 42 GB total.

We were running with ldbm backend till 6-7 months back when the total size of the DB was below 30 GB. It started crashing once in a while as the size started increasing.

We then changed the backend to Berkeley DB (Version:4.4.20) and the openLDAP version 2.3.27. It is running in a 8 GB memory machine with 32 bit processing and receives updates through an custom interface which binds to ldap and do the update / inserts and deletes.

The rate at which the updates/inserts/deletes come is around 1-2 K / hr.

Now when I start the slapd process in loglevel 256 or 512 , it starts crashing with in a few hours running out of memory. The maximum memory that 32 bit processor can use is around 2 GB. It crashes after that. I was trying to tune the DB_CONFIG :

DB_CONFIG settings for each DB :

For 26 GB DB. set_cachesize 0 42428800 0 # Transaction Log settings set_lg_regionmax 1048576 set_lg_max 20485760 set_lg_bsize 2097152

For 12GB DB set_cachesize 0 15485760 0 set_lg_regionmax 1048576 set_lg_max 20485760 set_lg_bsize 2097152

for 4 GB DB set_cachesize 0 10485760 0 set_lg_regionmax 1048576 set_lg_max 10485760 set_lg_bsize 2097152

Slapd.conf settings :

loglevel 16 gentlehup on idletimeout 300 sizelimit 1000 timelimit 300 password-hash {SSHA} allow bind_v2 threads 32

These parameters are set same for all the three DBs :

dbcachesize 100000 cachesize 100000

There is a replica also which gets updates from the master.

Now when I change the loglevel to 32 or 16 , the process lives longer , sometimes for a week or for more than a month.... However , as soon as I switch back to old loglevel , it starts crashing. This is happening in both master and slave.

Could you please advice whether there is a fix for this in the current version or is it getting fixed in the coming version OR is it something that I can fix by configuring. Logs are important for us as we need to know where the requests are coming from. Also , the DB is accessed 250 K times in a day approximately.

Please let me know if I need to furnish any more details.

Thanks, Sumith.