<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...
Gavin.