Re: LDAP Performance.

[Wesley Hof <wesleyh@staf.planetinternet.be>]

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On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Beast wrote:

> Monday, July 28, 2003, 1:49:57 PM, Bjørn wrote:
>
> > Wesley Hof:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I have an LDAP running with a perdition schema, filled with about 300.000
> >> accounts. The machine is a pIII 1000 with 512 MB ram. I increased the open
> >> file descriptors.
> >>
> >> Now I have a problem, everything goes real fast for about 20 minutes. Then
> >> the ldap reacts real slow, an ldapsearch took about 1 minute, and telnet
> >> to 389 is not allowed anymore.
> >>
> >> Does anyone here has an idea what kind of a performance issue this can be?
>
> > What is your usage of this LDAP-server? Unix-login with SecureShell?
> > If you do, make shure you have NSCD (Naming Service Cache Daemon)
> > with apropriate settings. You don't want a 'ls -l' to run a ldap-query
> > for get-pwent etc etc.
>
> IMHO, its not a solution for this kind of problem, it will only reduce
> the number of quesries to ldap server.
> However it would be nice if OL itself is able to handle these queries.
>
> Wesley Hof: what backend you're using?
>
>
> --beast
>