Dear all, we're currently testing performance of OpenLDAP on Oracle/RedHat Linux and quite unexpected actually hit systemd-journald to be a bottleneck. While OpenLDAP happily makes use of all available CPUs, that one is single threaded, braking everything. The only way around I have found is to set olcLoglevel to 0, speeding up my test run by a factor of 6(!). That now of course is not an option to use in production. I'd happily directly write to a file as I did in the old days but I cannot get olcLogfile to work. And even if I was able to get there, how do I stop OpenLDAP from logging to syslogd (which is inevitably forwarding everything to system-journald ….) ? Can anyone give advice how to handle this ? Any hint appreciated (short of "get a decent OS" – that is not an option).

-----Original Message----- From: Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah(a)symas.com&gt; Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 6:53 PM To: Storm, Markus <Markus.Storm(a)t-systems.com&gt;; openldap- technical(a)openldap.org Subject: Re: logging through systemd-journald is bottleneck --On Wednesday, March 18, 2020 6:16 PM +0000 Markus.Storm@t- systems.com wrote: > > Dear all, > > we're currently testing performance of OpenLDAP on Oracle/RedHat Linux > and quite unexpected actually hit systemd-journald to be a bottleneck. > While OpenLDAP happily makes use of all available CPUs, that one is > single threaded, braking everything. The only way around I have found > is to set olcLoglevel to 0, speeding up my test run by a factor of 6(!). > That now of course is not an option to use in production. > I'd happily directly write to a file as I did in the old days but I > cannot get olcLogfile to work. And even if I was able to get there, > how do I stop OpenLDAP from logging to syslogd (which is inevitably > forwarding everything to system-journald ….) ? > Can anyone give advice how to handle this ? Any hint appreciated > (short of "get a decent OS" – that is not an option). Hi Markus, We always advise our customers to disable the abominable syslog<->journald integration that RedHat has pushed onto their customers with complete disregard to the consequences of this short-sighted action. Not only does it destroy performance, it can also cause the system to completely deadlock. If you need instructions on how to do this, let me know. Regards, Quanah -- Quanah Gibson-Mount Product Architect Symas Corporation Packaged, certified, and supported LDAP solutions powered by OpenLDAP: <http://www.symas.com>