Re: how to best create a new slave server?

[Dusty Doris <openldap@mail.doris.cc>]

> I never used SyncRepl, but after reading about it, I somehow feel that 
> changes are replicated to the slaves not when the changes are made on the 
> master (which is almost immediate with slurpd), but when a slave wants, i.e. 
> slave queries the master several times an hour (and causing unneeded traffic 
> sometimes, especially when there are many slaves).

Certainly you can configure it to do that.  But that's not your only 
option.  I use syncrepl with refreshandpersist and the changes are almost 
immediate.

If you do decide to have it only request changes every so often, that 
still isn't a lot of traffic.