Re: Intense LDAP write operations

[Leif Johansson <leifj@it.su.se>]

> Hi,
> 
> I am working on a problem where LDAP would be used to keep a directory with
> user data.  One concern I have is that LDAP is supposed to be less efficient
> when it comes to intense write operations.
> 
> Can LDAP handle millions of users data in a directory where some of the data
> (a few attributes) needs to be updated very frequently?  How would that
> affect performance and is LDAP effective when the searched data must be
> returned prompty with very little delay?
> 
> If anyone has any comments on this, I would appreciate it,
> 
> Martin Rahm
> 

I can't see any reason why there should be any inherent performance hit on
writes in LDAP. The reason why most servers are slow on writes is that they
update indexes for each write operation.

	Cheers Leif