[389-users] Re: Cannot change nsslapd-db-max-locks

Hi,

On Tue, May 12, 2026 at 4:46 PM Orion Poplawski via 389-users <389-users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:

On one of our EL9 IPA servers I'm unable to change nsslapd-db-max-locks

 nsslapd-db-max-locks shows the peak concurrent lock count since the last restart. It's not meant to be changed.

ldapsearch returns:

# database, monitor, ldbm database, plugins, config
dn: cn=database,cn=monitor,cn=ldbm database,cn=plugins,cn=config
nsslapd-db-current-locks: 96
nsslapd-db-max-locks: 179

dsconf config get returns:

nsslapd-db-locks: 50018

I've restarted many times.  Changed the value a couple of times.  What's up?

How exactly do you change them?

This works for me:

dsconf <instance> backend config set --locks 100000

After restart in the error logs:
[13/May/2026:08:11:01.395692873 -0400] - NOTICE - bdb_start - Resizing max db lock count: 50000 -> 100000

389-ds-base-2.7.0-12.el9_7.x86_64

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