Am Thu, 19 Mar 2020 08:57:11 +0100
schrieb "Ulrich Windl" <[email protected]>:

> >>> Dieter Klünter <[email protected]> schrieb am 18.03.2020 um
> >>> 19:57 in  
> Nachricht
> <30206_1584557842_5e726f12_30206_1570_1_20200318195706.1d992...@pink.fritz.box>:
> 
> > Am Wed, 18 Mar 2020 17:16:53 +0000
> > schrieb <[email protected]>:
> >   
> >> Dear all,
> >> 
> >> we're currently testing performance of OpenLDAP on Oracle/RedHat
> >> Linux and quite unexpected actually hit systemd-journald to be a
> >> bottleneck. While OpenLDAP happily makes use of all available CPUs,
> >> that one is single threaded, braking everything. The only way
> >> around I have found is to set olcLoglevel to 0, speeding up my
> >> test run by a factor of 6(!). That now of course is not an option
> >> to use in production. I'd happily directly write to a file as I
> >> did in the old days but I cannot get olcLogfile to work. And even
> >> if I was able to get there, how do I stop OpenLDAP from logging to
> >> syslogd (which is inevitably forwarding everything to
> >> system-journald ....) ? Can anyone give advice how to handle this
> >> ? Any hint appreciated (short of "get a decent OS" - that is not
> >> an option).  
> > 
> > I support Qanah's advice!
> > Beside this, consider a logging strategy based on required
> > information and neglected information, as well as min. and max.
> > server load.
> > 
> > Based on my experience I would disable logging as default, but
> > enable logging for a short given time, just a modify operation on
> > atribute olcLogLevel.
> > With regard to journald I advice to define filters, see man
> > journalctl(1).
> > If syslog is a requirement, change to rsyslog. Don't make use of
> > logstash!  
> 
> Can't openLDAP simply log to a different port than the default syslog
> port? If so, just set up some alternate local syslog server.
> Or, in case an external syslog server is supported, just use one that
> isn't using systemd-journald.
> 
> Sorry, I neved had the need to use a different syslog mechanism...

mann slapd(8), syslog-local-user, slapd logs, as default, to local4

-Dieter

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