Security Software

Dear Adviser


This is NOT a bug report or an enhancement request.
We are looking for advice on a customer support call.

We are using iPlanet Webserver 4.1 SP7 and iPlanet Directory
Server 4.12 on Solaris 2.8.

We are checking to see if there is any engineering
documentation or quick pointers on LDAP database file
sizes and cache file sizes that may relate to a
reported problem.

Thank you for your time and co-operation in advance.

We have been working on a TIBCO/Portal Builder customer
issue that does not seem to have guidance in end
user documentation. This is related to a significant
increase in LDAP and cache file sizes (which at this
point do NOT seem to affect any performance). Is this
something that you are aware of from your QA/performance
tests? The problem seems to have suddenly cropped
up and we are attempting to isolate the triggerring event.

We started with the possibility that it is
a. Solaris Platform issue
OR
b. LDAP issue

We have done several experiments to isolate specific
issues as described below. We have researched
Sun/iPlanet web site and technical sites on the net.

Currently, we believe that the LDAP database size is increasing
because the Portal has been configured with pages
that have a lot of "Personalized" panes. Users are visiting
these pages, and getting automatically subscribed to these
panes, which add corresponding entries in the LDAP server.

Please find below the listing of all the files (from LDAP
DB directory) which are growing very fast. Kindly advise what can be
done so that these files do not eat up all the disk space.

-rw------- 1 netscape applsw 32768 Feb 4 2001 numsubordinates.db2
-rw------- 1 netscape applsw 16384 Feb 4 2001 aci.db2
-rw------- 1 netscape applsw 16384 Feb 4 2001 copiedfrom.db2
-rw------- 1 netscape applsw 16384 Feb 4 2001 default.db2
-rw------- 1 netscape applsw 16384 Sep 14 19:07 uid.db2
-rw------- 1 netscape applsw 16384 Sep 14 19:07 sn.db2
-rw------- 1 netscape applsw 16384 Sep 14 19:07 givenName.db2
-rw------- 1 netscape applsw 32768 Sep 14 19:26 cn.db2
-rw-r----- 1 netscape applsw 32768 Feb 7 04:08 __db_log.share
-rw-r----- 1 netscape applsw 708608 Feb 7 04:08 __db_lock.share
-rw-r----- 1 netscape applsw 625000448 Feb 7 04:08 __db_mpool.share

-rw------- 1 netscape applsw 18 Feb 9 12:34 DBVERSION
-rw------- 1 netscape applsw 811008 Feb 14 10:14 apname.db2
-rw------- 1 netscape applsw 3702784 Feb 14 11:23 parentid.db2
-rw------- 1 netscape applsw 98304 Feb 14 11:23 objectclass.db2
-rw------- 1 netscape applsw 277479424 Feb 14 11:23 id2entry.db2
-rw------- 1 netscape applsw 67829760 Feb 14 11:23 entrydn.db2
-rw------- 1 netscape applsw 26017792 Feb 14 11:23 dncomp.db2
-rw------- 1 netscape applsw 81920 Feb 14 11:23 apjavaclass.db2
-rw------- 1 netscape applsw 24592384 Feb 14 11:23 apguid.db2
-rw-r----- 1 netscape applsw 4096 Feb 14 11:24 __db_txn.share
-rw-r----- 1 netscape applsw 8040951 Feb 14 11:24 log.02045


Do let us know what your advice is.

Thanks,
Ambareesh
(vambareesh@aalayance.com)
Tibco Support