Re: poor performance of OpenLDAP vs AD?

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@symas.com>]

--On Wednesday, July 13, 2005 12:48 PM -0400 Igor Brezac <igor@ipass.net> 
wrote:

> Benchmark that matters is the one you perform.

Yes and no.  Certainly, taking at look at how things perform for what you 
plan to deploy can be quite useful.

However, if you set up your benchmarks where you document well what you 
did, and make sure that your configuration settings are public, you can set 
up benchmarks that others can duplicate, and can be agreed upon as 
indicative of real meaning.  Certainly testing AD on a Pentium II with 1MB 
of RAM and OpenLDAP on a dual CPU 3.2 GHZ Xeon with 16GB of RAM wouldn't be 
a fair comparison.  Qualitative statements about the general performance of 
any set of given Directory Servers can be made if you make everything "the 
same" as much as is feasibly possible.


--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Product Engineer
Symas Corporation
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