--On Thursday, December 14, 2006 4:27 PM -0500 Paul Turgyan pturgyan@umich.edu wrote:
Interesting... I've been using SASL/GSSAPI with OpenLDAP for several years, and I agree I see memory growth in the loaded slapd, but it also stabilizes for me after a point. Have you looked at using any alternative memory allocators? I use Hoard instead of the default on my servers, and that has drastically improved memory allocation on my multi-CPU servers. You don't say how many CPU's you've got.
We have 2 cpu's w/ hyperthreading, so it kinda looks like 4 cpu's.
It is well established that glibc's default malloc stuff has suffers badly from fragmentation on multiple CPU's. I highly advise using Hoard as your allocator and re-testing. ;)
You may want to read over:
http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-devel/200611/msg00004.html
and the other messages in this thread.
--Quanah
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