SLAPD starting very slow

[Per olof Ljungmark]

Jan HREHO wrote:
> Hi everybody.
> My configuration.
> FreeBSD 6.0 + I update ports. All programs I installed over ports
> 
> I installed LDAP server and client (2.2.30), nss_ldap-1.244, 
> pam_ldap-1.8.0.

its rc that wants slapd - through PAM and NSS. I think there's something 
fishy about the way all this is implemented but unfortunately I don't 
know what and why. However, I moved /usr/local/etc/tc.d/slapd.sh to 
/etc/rc.d/slapd and that fixed it.

You might want to look into
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-rcd.html
to get an idea.