> See the documentation for your kernel. Even though you have 4GB of > memory, on a 32-bit system, the kernel cannot allocate all of it for > user processes. > > How big is your database? What is the size of your id2entry.db4 file? > > You usually want to have your nsslapd-cachememsize large enough to hold > your database in memory, if possible. That gives the most boost to > performance. You probably want to leave nsslapd-dbcachesize at the > default size - it does not impact performance nearly as much. > du -h id2entry.db4 2.3G id2entry.db4 OK - so I need the cachememsize to be > 2.3G - I'll have a read about kernel limitations then - I had thought 32bit = 4Gb. Thanks. Jim.