Is this a publicly-queryable server? Any chance you're getting nailed by directory harvester bots? What does that server's bandwidth consumption look like? Graham Freeman Cernio Technology Cooperative http://cernio.com/cooperative/ (Sent from my handheld - pardon my brevity.) ...... Original Message ....... On Mon, 7 Aug 2006 14:51:23 -0400 "Bliss, Aaron" <ABliss at preferredcare.org> wrote: >Hi everyone, >I'm running fds on 2 servers, a supplier and consumer, both are running >redhat ES 4; I noticed today and for the last few days that the supplier >directory server is running very, very slow, top reveals that ns-slapd >is killing the cpu; these are running on server class hardware, roughly >1.5 GHZ hp proliant servers; the consumer directory server cpu >utilization is almost 0 (99 % idol); I don't really know how to being to >troubleshoot this problem; I've seen similar issues on oracle database >servers when database indexes were corrupt and had to be rebuilt....Any >ideas as to how to begin to troubleshoot this? Thanks very much. > >1806 ldap 15 0 517m 33m 14m S 90.6 3.3 4:56.21 ns-slapd >