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Re: bulk load speeds bdb vs ldbm





--On Friday, April 22, 2005 9:43 AM -0400 Mark J Strawcutter <mjstraw@iup.edu> wrote:

We run an OpenLDAP server to provide a "white pages" directory
that is queried by email clients and a web look-up form.  Nothing
complicated, complete reload of the database each night using
an extract from out student/employee records system.

ldbm has been working fine.  We can reload all 30k entries in
a couple of minutes using slapadd.

Common wisdom seems to be that bdb is better, so I'm investigating
switching.  The first problem is that the load takes 2-3 hours :-(
The slapd.conf params I've found that look like they might help
have been set thusly:

cachesize       100000
idlcachesize    1000000

Any suggestions on what I can do to bring bdb load times more in line
with ldbm?  Or should I just stick with what's working (ie ldbm)?

I suggest you read over the many many posts, some quite recent, about properly configuring your DB_CONFIG file, which is a must with BDB. The two options you are currently examining are related to when the server is running, not when it is being loaded via slapadd.


See the OpenLDAP FAQ for more information.
<http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/1166.html> is probably a good place to start, and reading,
<http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/893.html> is of particular importance, and
<http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/1072.html> will probably add some value.


--Quanah

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