Re: performance tuning

[Matty <mattyml@bellsouth.net>]

On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 15:55, Chuck Pierce wrote:
> Does anyone have any suggestions on where to start performance tuning openldap?

Are you indexing appropriately? What does iostat/vmstat point at
(CPU/Disk/Memory). I thought I read somewhere that OpenLDAP maintains
statistics on connections and queries. 

> 
> I've got a dual processor system (Sun E450) that is getting pretty hammered.  I
> can grow the box to 4 processors, but I didn't know if that would help (is
> openldap multi-threaded?).

OpenLDAP is multithreaded (your Operating System needs to provide thread
support). Make sure you build with "--with-threads."

> 
> The database is pretty small (~2000 records) and pretty flat (only three or so
> levels).  It's just user info for user logins (eg, username, password, gecos,
> etc).
> 
> any help/links would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> thanks - Chuck