Re: Scaling LDAP

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>]

--On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 11:08 AM +0530 Gaurav Gugnani 
<gugnanigaurav@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> First of all thks for helping me out with the issues on openLDAP.
> Well today, my query is pretty generic and lot many people working on
> LDAP would face such an issues.
>
>
>
> We are using openldap 2.4.26 with BDB as backend. We've installed the
> setup on linux machine of 64 bit with 4GB ram.ÂNow, currently we have
> some 10K records in it and its working perfectly fine. Our systems is
> running under replication - syncrepl.
>
>
> However, in near future we can foresee some million of records to turn
> up. So, Can any one please advise - What are the different Scaling
> options available with LDAP?Â

I'm not sure what you mean by scaling options.  OpenLDAP scales, and that 
has been shown numerous times.  How well/far it scales depends entirely on 
your hardware and operating system and the size of the DB in relation to 
those things.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Sr. Member of Technical Staff
Zimbra, Inc
A Division of VMware, Inc.
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