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etime means Elapsed time, in this case etime=0, indicates the amount of time (in seconds) that it took Directory Server to perform the LDAP operation. An etime value of 0 means that the operation actually took milliseconds to perform.

In general etimes of 0 & 1 are quite common and would indicate correct operation of the directory server. Continuous high etimes would indicate that further investigation is required.

The following command could be used to extract the etime values from a directory server access log:

grep etime access| awk '{print $3, $11}'

conn=12861 etime=0
conn=12861 etime=0
conn=12862 etime=0 
conn=12862 etime=0
conn=12862 etime=0
conn=12862 etime=1

As is demonstrated above, this displays the connection numbers & etime values. If you noticed high etime values, you could use the connection number to investigate what operation on the directory took so long and pin-point the reason why.