Re: import is slow on Solaris

[Tom Helmer Jensen <thelmer@ruc.dk>]

Peter Fabian wrote:

> We just installed 1.2.7 on Solaris 2.6 and noticed that importing ldif
> files using the command below is incredibly slow:
>
> ldapadd -D "cn=xxx" -w yyy -f  test.ldif
>
> test.ldif is roughly  40 mb. the import took over 2 hours. the machine
> has over 1GB RAM and 2 CPU
>
> is there any faster way of build import?
>

You can tune ldapadd (be aware of the data integrity implications):

http://www.OpenLDAP.org/faq/data/cache/192.html

Or do a offline database creation as described in the managers guide:

http://www.umich.edu/~dirsvcs/ldap/doc/guides/slapd/8.html#RTFToC41

Regards, Tom

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