Re: Long time queris on search string of 3 char

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

S-linuxale wrote:
> Hi Quanah,
> Ok this is exactly what I was searching.
>
> I Think you are involved in develop of openldap to know this thing.
>
> But I like to know where this info could be get...from an adminstrator ,
> if possible, without read the code!
>   

As Quanah already pointed out, these values are documented in the 
slapd.conf(5) man page. As an administrator, you should be reading those 
man pages.
> Thanks a lot
> Alex
>
>
> On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 08:50 -0800, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
>   
> > --On Thursday, January 19, 2006 10:28 AM +0100 S-linuxale 
> > <linuxale@libero.it> wrote:
> >
> >     
> > > Hi All!
> > > I'm new to this mailing list...
> > > After a lot of time waste to try to understand why I'm here to ask
> > > Why! :-)
> > >
> > > So I'v an Openldap server slapd 2.2.13 popolated with about 800 hundred
> > > entries on a P4 2.6 with 512Mb.
> > >
> > > I'v noted that on search of substring >3 the result are fast, about
> > > 1-3', but when I try to search anything under 3 char the server respond
> > > after 450-500' with different search.
> > >       
> > This is by design.  I suggest upgrading to OpenLDAP 2.3.18, the latest 
> > release.  In OpenLDAP 2.3, you can tune the number of characters at which 
> > substring searches respond to with the:
> >
> > index_substr_if_minlen
> > index_substr_if_maxlen
> > index_substr_any_len
> > index_substr_any_step
> >
> > parameters in slapd.conf(5)
> >     


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