Re: Load testing bind performance

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Tim wrote:
> Heya,
>
> Could anyone recommend a quick and dirty way in which to load test an OpenLDAP 
> service to get an indication as to the potential capacity for the platform to 
> handle bind requests?
>
> I've used the python-ldap library to simulate other varieties of interactions 
> successfully, but when it comes to binds, each interaction seems to generate a 
> substantial amount of traffic behind the scenes, so suspect that *things* are 
> happening that is artificially limiting the bind rate/s.
>
> I've seen some links to people using JMeter to perform this sort of load 
> testing, but thought there may be other (quicker to implement) tools also?

You can look at slapd-bind and slapd-auth in the OpenLDAP test suite, that's 
what they're for.

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