Re: Adding attributes (in a massive way)....

[Frank Swasey <Frank.Swasey@uvm.edu>]

Today at 3:44pm, Peter Marschall wrote:

> I cannot believe tthe numbers for the ldapmodify.
> Did you actually measure them ?

I did not measure a full 54000 entry modification.  I have sat for HOURS 
and watched an ldapmodify spew forth one "updating xxx" per second when 
I made massive changes (defined as run a slapcat, process with a perl 
script to generate the ldif to update everyone, run ldapmodify on that 
ldif).  I have long since given up doing things that way.  

Now, instead of writing a perl script using Net::LDAP to bind, 
search/update (all entries), unbind.  I write a perl script using 
Net::LDAP to read the ldif file generated by slapcat, make the updates, 
write a new ldif file, then I run slapadd to replace the whole 
directory.  It has proven to be just plain faster in my environment.

It's been about six months since I even tried the "live update" process 
for anything more than a few entries.

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