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Re: attribute size limit?

Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: 
--On Tuesday, April 22, 2008 5:43 AM +0200 Emmanuel Dreyfus
<manu@netbsd.org>  wrote:

Hello

I don't find this in the documentation: is it possible to enforce a byte
limit on an attribute or an object?

jpegPhoto seems to be able to absorb huge amount of data. I had a bad
experience with users uploading huge pictures, causing LDAP queries in
some applications to timeout before getting a result, and later causing
a simultaneous crash of all LDAP replicas because of resource shortage.


Don't let them do that.  Have them store a URL to a jpeg stored elsewhere.
Or write an intervening app that enforces the sizelimit.  But in general
storing binary data like that in LDAP will cause problems.

That's a bit overstated. But certainly you can set the sockbuf_max_incoming limits to smaller values.

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