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In a project, i have to restart openldap's slapd from a daemon.

This failed, with no reason, no log entry at all.

After some debugging i found out that slapd requires a terminal ... just to vanish again a bit later into the daemon mode.

Ok, screen does the job:

screen -D -m /etc/init.d/ldap start

If you experience performance problems in openldap, especially with a back-sql backend, try to deactivate the debugging in openldap.

In particular the debugging mode 128 (access control list processing) needs a lot performance.