--On Thursday, August 19, 2021 9:18 AM +0200 Ulrich Windl Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de wrote:
Still I'm slighly confused: If the default is 16 and you set it to (let's say) 18, by which power of two will the value be increased? 2^18 - 2^16 is not a power of 2, so you could increase the value three times by 2^16 (one to make 2^17, and another two to make 2^18). But I still guess the value is simply set to 2^18, whatever the increase from the default might be.
If the value is 16, it will be 2^16 = 65536. If the value is 18, it will be 2^18 which is 262,144. So yes, the difference between them isn't a power of 2, but the point was the max value is always a power of 2.
I would also note that every increment will cause slapd to require more memory. Larger values (such as 30) would require several terrabytes of RAM for slapd to function.
--Quanah
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