please consider this the late night raving of a confirmed madman.
special thanks to Tim Howes for adding a little clarity.
I had been experimenting with cache sizes several days earlier to
increase the speed of the build not realizing the impact on the server.
<><randall
On Tue, 23 Jul 1996, Randy Grimshaw wrote:
>
> mount soapbox:
>
> I am not mad (either interpretation) but I just don't get it... I
> compiled slapd using the gdbm libraries and sucessfully got the server to
> run with our entire database of 8088 entries. The source ldif.data file is
> a whopping 1.05 mb. The data structures are pretty much like the examples
> in the quick-start guide. While executing, slapd consumes 46 mb of memory
> space. Side effects are that bootpd fails every night and my perl
> programs complain that they are out of memory. My swap partition is 190080
> blocks (although my actual ram is only 32mb). Am I the only one who has
> missed the point of this exercise or is my denial merely confirmation? no
> replies are really neccessary.
>
> dismount soapbox.
>
> <><randall
>