--On Tuesday, September 11, 2007 8:59 AM -0400 Aaron Richton richton@nbcs.rutgers.edu wrote:
It's almost certain that this configuration is inappropriate. You're unlikely to get a decently tuned cache for a database that size in 32-bit process space.
As for your "crashes," you're likely OOM running into the DN cache issues previously discussed
http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-software/200708/msg00106.html
and you may find help with a 64-bit platform, OpenLDAP 2.4, or some combination thereof.
I think it is a little premature for OpenLDAP 2.4, but definitely go 64-bit, do some tuning, and actually provide useful details. You don't note the OS either, but if it is Linux, you probably want to use something like tcmalloc instead of glibc for memory management as well.
--Quanah
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