Huge slapd?

[Oliver Brandmueller]

Hi.

On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 05:03:48PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote:
> After a few days of mostly test load, top reports that the slapd process 
> (OpenLDAP server) is huge:
> 
> 439 ldap      20    0   149M  6128K kserel   0:07  0.00%  0.00% slapd
> 
> I know that the actually used memory size is the 6MB figure above, but 
> why does it allocate almost 150MB? Is it normal?

I observed the same behaviour, especially if a lot of data are added. 
The same behaviour was seen on FreeBSD/i386 as well as on Solaris/sun4u

- Oliver

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