Re: couple of q's...

[Michael Thomas Cope <mcope@orion.ac.hmc.edu>]

On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, David J N Begley wrote:

> I was wondering if someone might be able to answer a couple of quick (?)
> questions out of curiosity for me:
> If using the Web-to-LDAP or finger-to-LDAP gateways a specific person lookup
> is actually quite quick (almost instantaneous);  more generic lookups (with
> either multiple matches or even a single match) take far longer (certainly too
> long for most users, and definitely too long for most applications).  OpenLDAP
> linked into PINE 4.03 seems to be slow no matter how specific or generic the
> query.  :-(
Have you tried indexing common search fields?  That seems to work well
here.
-Mike
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Michael Cope: Harvey Mudd College '00; Armand Hammer UWC '96
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