RE: [openldap 2.1.12] add a new index in database

["Howard Chu" <hyc@symas.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
> [mailto:owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org]On Behalf Of Quanah
Gibson-Mount

> --On Wednesday, October 22, 2003 9:43 PM +0200 Dieter Kluenter
> <dieter@dkluenter.de> wrote:
>
> > with 25,000 entries in the database
> > marin:/opt/avci/sbin # time ./slapindex -b "o=avci"
> >
> > real    8m21.698s
> > user    3m19.500s
> > sys     2m8.590s
> >
>
> Dieter,
>
> What backend?  Multiple tests I've done using BDB and slapindex have
> resulted in days of runtime by slapindex.  I even wrote up an
> ITS on this,
> which Howard investigated, and found a solution to, but it
> requires the use of 2 HD's and shared memory, or 3 HD's.

Or a sufficiently large cache.

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