To Configure Heap Memory Threshold

If you want to limit the amount of heap memory used by the nsslapd process, you can set threshold values for the dynamic memory footprint. You might set this threshold when Directory Server is running on a machine where resources are shared or sparse.

This threshold can only be set on Solaris and Linux platforms.

For information about memory sizing, see Directory Server and Memory in Sun Java System Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6.2 Deployment Planning Guide.

You cannot use DSCC to perform this task. Use the command line, as described in this procedure.

By default, the heap-high-threshold-size and heap-low-threshold-size properties are undefined.

1. Set the maximum heap high memory threshold.

   $ dsconf set-server-prop -h host -p port heap-high-threshold-size:value

   where value is either undefined or a memory size expressed in gigabytes (G), megabytes (M), kilobytes (k) or bytes (b). The size you specify must be supported by your machine.

   For recommendations on the values to use for heap-high-threshold-size , see the server(5dsconf) man page.

2. Optionally, set the maximum heap low memory threshold .

   $ dsconf set-server-prop -h host -p port heap-low-threshold-size:value

   where value is either undefined or a memory size expressed in gigabytes (G), megabytes (M), kilobytes (k) or bytes (b). The size you specify must be supported by your machine.

   For recommendations on the values to use for heap-low-threshold-size , see the server(5dsconf) man page.