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Re: New performance numbers



Howard Chu wrote:
> Back in May 2006 we posted some authentication rate numbers for Symas
> CDS 3.3.2 (based on OpenLDAP 2.3.21.)
> http://connexitor.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=49
> 
> On a 1 million entry database, we saw about 13K auths/second on a dual
> processor 2.8GHz Opteron system.
> 
> We've recently re-run the tests using OpenLDAP 2.4.5 on a dual processor
> 2.8GHz dual-core Opteron system (so, 4 cores now instead of just 2) and
> gotten 38K auths/second. One interesting thing to note is that we
> reached this same rate on back-bdb, with the slapd server at 100% CPU
> utilization, as well as with back-null, where slapd was only at 70% CPU.
> (This implies to me that there may have been a network bottleneck here,
> because we ought to have been able to drive slapd into 100% CPU usage
> even with back-null. Even gigabit ethernet has its limits...)
> 
> But the other nice point about this result is that while the number of
> CPU cores was increased by a factor of 2, the overall auth rates
> increased by a factor of 2.7. So we can see that OpenLDAP 2.4 is at
> least 35% faster than OpenLDAP 2.3. It also shows that the lightweight
> dispatcher is still scaling well with available CPU power.
> 
> Another point is the same thing I've harped on before - SLAMD is too
> inefficient on clients. We measured the 38K/sec rate using the
> slapd-auth C client that I just added to CVS HEAD. Using the SLAMD java
> client we could only reach 29K/sec, even with 12 client machines and 10
> threads per client. Someone's going to have to sit down and write a C
> client that speaks the SLAMD server protocol and just fires off compiled
> C clients...

Excellent news.

Can we add slapd-auth to tests/progs/Makefile.in ??

Thanks.

-- 
Kind Regards,

Gavin Henry.
OpenLDAP Engineering Team.

E ghenry@OpenLDAP.org

Community developed LDAP software.

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