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Re: Problem Building Database
there was an earlier message posted--last day or so--that was looking at some
benchmarks. if i recall correctly, they had some really long populate
times--like around 30 hours! but once the directory was populated, accesses
were on the order of seconds.
--mk
Dmitriy Kotlyarskiy wrote:
> I was suggested by postmaster to post this message in "software".
> Sorry if somebody receiving it second time.
>
> We are working with OpenLDAP 1.2.7 on Solaris 2.7 with a gdbm database. For
> now we have dedicated a spark 20 with 65 MB and 175 MHz processor. With
> some help we were able to build and install everything successfully and
> performed some tests.
>
> Now we are trying to build a test database. We exported some data from our
> Sybase database to be imported into the approximate ldap hierarchy below
>
> o------root
> |
> o------users
> |
> o-------user1
> | |
> | o----------item1
> | |
> | o----------item2
> | |
> | ....
> | |
> | o----------itemN
> |
> o-------user2
> | |
> | ....
> .....
> |
> o--------userN
>
> Currently we are working with about 8000 users and about 130,000 items for
> 3000 of those users. Which works out to about 40 items/per user.
> User data and item data were exported into two separate ldif files. We used
> ldif2ldbm to load the first file and it took about 4 hours. We then started
> on the second file which is apout 17MB in size. We started ldif2ldbm on
> Friday night and it is still not done by Wednesday.
>
> Is this normal behavior and if not, what are we doing wrong? Do we need
> more powerful hardware? Do we need to structure our ldif files differently?
> Can OpenLdap deal with this number of entries? I would appreciate an insight
> on this.
>
> Thanks, Slav