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Re: How scalable is LDAP??

To: Shekhar Ayyappan <Shekhar.Ayyappan@asbbank.co.nz>
Subject: Re: How scalable is LDAP??
From: Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@whitemice.org>
Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 14:52:30 -0400
Cc: "OpenLDAP.org" <openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org>
In-reply-to: <59743EE7183AD7119A000002A5422C9501D3B7D5@ntcomp164.asbbank.co.nz>
References: <59743EE7183AD7119A000002A5422C9501D3B7D5@ntcomp164.asbbank.co.nz>

> have a quick question for you.

This is NOT a quick question.

> I was wondering if there are quick tools or methods to realise how scalable
> and robust a LDAP directory is????
> My statement is that any limitations are usually impacted by machine
> resources. LDAP Directory itself is totally scalable. What slows them down
> is bandwidth, memory and CPU.

This has been asked MANY MANY MANY times, see the archives.  And the
FAQ-O-Matic for tuning tips, and the BDB documentation. 

More RAM never hurts.  Just put in enough to cache the whole database
and indexes.

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- How scalable is LDAP??
  - From: Shekhar Ayyappan <Shekhar.Ayyappan@asbbank.co.nz>

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