[tech] Breaking out some of Mussel's services.

[James French]

> Does the slapd replication stuff work these days? It used to be a real
> pain in the arse to get working, I think I managed to get it going
> once. If we had a backup LDAP server, we'd be able to get in (although
> I guess you'd have to wait for query to the dead LDAP primary server
> to time out.)

We have martello doing backup, not sure what the status is, someone
did mention something about SSL biting us. Trs80, Zanchey comments?

It's not exactly hard to break those services out onto another VM.
Last I checked we still had some resources available on Mermaid. Even
if we have to scale back Mussel's resources slightly and gave those to
another machine, that'd get us past the out of memory issues (though
not away from the CPU getting thrashed).

Frenchie

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James French
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