-----Original Message----- From: Quanah Gibson-Mount quanah@fast-mail.org we usually have closer to 2k-3k concurrent connections. The total number of initiated operations during the time frame was also within normal range. There was also nothing unusual about amount of network traffic, it fit right in with normal traffic levels.
Every one of these that I have seen, with OpenLDAP (or Sun DSEE or AD) has been due to client traffic.
Connection count is not always related to workload. You can have a couple of connections doing a lot of searches, right?
Quanah, I thought you'd know better than me: The "deferring operation: binding" message is an indication of a client with a lot of outstanding async requests, right?
So I think your problem is probably not a lot of clients or a lot of connection but one or a few sending a lot of work to your server in the form of, if not writes; if not a voluminous quantity (as evidenced by your network metrics seeming normal), maybe some complex filters?