Re: 2.1.17 performance issues

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>]

--On Thursday, April 17, 2003 11:19 AM -0300 Andreas 
<andreas@conectiva.com.br> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 04:43:16PM -0700, Howard Chu wrote:
> > These questions about why/how BerkeleyDB works are beyond the scope of
> > this mailing list. You might try finding someone at sleepycat.com to
> > answer them
>
> People look at openldap as a whole, even if contains third party software
> such as openssl libraries, sasl and bdb. It should be expected that these
> kind of questions will show up on this mailing list.
>
> Since bdb is the default backend in openldap-2.1, I think it would be nice
> to devote a little more attention to these questions, perhaps in the
> documentation, perhaps with more faq entries, etc. Every now and then
> someone has bad performance problems and he/she is referred to an offsite
> project. I understand that sleepycat will of course have more information
> about bdb than openldap, but the two have to live together. If the backend
> is badly tuned, well, the user will first see this as an openldap problem.

Andreas,

As I previously noted, the basic documentation on how to set up BDB for 
OpenLDAP is online at the OpenLDAP website in its FAQ.  The several recent 
questions about BDB & OpenLDAP have shown that people are not even 
bothering to check the FAQ.  Also, one could use the search function of the 
list archives to see the answer to this and related questions that have 
been answered many times, which is why they are a part of the FAQ.  The 
failure I see here is not a lack of documentation on the OpenLDAP side, but 
a lack of willingness of users to go read documentation, and instead rely 
on asking questions of the list on how to do basic configuration.

Regards,
Quanah



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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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Stanford University
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