Hi All, I'm a newbie with bdb - and I have a server not performing well - openldap shows high cpu usage and iowait of server is high. So I got stats of bdb but I'm not sure what to make out of it. With help of google I could see that the basic parameters like requested pages and locks are ok. But there are other parameters which are suspect. The output of db_stat -c is as follows : 196 Last allocated locker ID 0x7fffffff Current maximum unused locker ID 9 Number of lock modes 1000 Maximum number of locks possible 1000 Maximum number of lockers possible 1000 Maximum number of lock objects possible 25 Number of current locks 758 Maximum number of locks at any one time 163 Number of current lockers 167 Maximum number of lockers at any one time 25 Number of current lock objects 394 Maximum number of lock objects at any one time 3609M Total number of locks requested (3609996536) 3609M Total number of locks released (3609996497) 0 Total number of locks upgraded 50 Total number of locks downgraded 3054935 Lock requests not available due to conflicts, for which we waited 0 Lock requests not available due to conflicts, for which we did not wait 14 Number of deadlocks 0 Lock timeout value 0 Number of locks that have timed out 0 Transaction timeout value 0 Number of transactions that have timed out 712KB The size of the lock region 187M The number of region locks that required waiting (56%) The output of dbstat -m is ( which looks ok to me ) 1GB 869MB 672KB Total cache size 1 Number of caches 1 Maximum number of caches 1GB 869MB 672KB Pool individual cache size 0 Maximum memory-mapped file size 0 Maximum open file descriptors 0 Maximum sequential buffer writes 0 Sleep after writing maximum sequential buffers 0 Requested pages mapped into the process' address space 1535M Requested pages found in the cache (99%) 247743 Requested pages not found in the cache 5517 Pages created in the cache 247743 Pages read into the cache 3491659 Pages written from the cache to the backing file 0 Clean pages forced from the cache 0 Dirty pages forced from the cache 0 Dirty pages written by trickle-sync thread 253260 Current total page count 253253 Current clean page count 7 Current dirty page count 262147 Number of hash buckets used for page location 1535M Total number of times hash chains searched for a page (1535296125) 4 The longest hash chain searched for a page 1245M Total number of hash chain entries checked for page (1245967353) 31M The number of hash bucket locks that required waiting (0%) 30M The maximum number of times any hash bucket lock was waited for (1%) 13566 The number of region locks that required waiting (4%) 0 The number of buffers frozen 0 The number of buffers thawed 0 The number of frozen buffers freed Are the lines in red really prbs or just side effects ? How do I go abt it ? Thanks and Regards, Amol.