[Freeipa-devel] FreeIPA Footprint

[W. Michael Petullo]

>> I do have a few questions about FreeIPA, related to my interest in a
>> very low-footprint solution.
>>
>> 1. Is there a good document on reducing the memory footprint of the Fedora
>> Directory Server? On my computer, FDS / ns-slapd seems to use 500 MB of
>> memory. A similar configuration using OpenLDAP / slapd used only 20 MB.
>
> DS by default has very large caches. It is possible to tune these down. We 
> haven't done much IPA-specific tuning beyond creating an index for each 
> attribute we search on.

Well, I modified nsslapd-dbcachesize, nsslapd-import-cachesize and
nsslapd-cachememsize. None of these had the affect I had hoped for on
the amount of memory that ns-slapd uses. It's still at around 1/2 GB.

Mike