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[OX User] LDAP Performance & Tuning

Gavin Henry ghenry at suretecsystems.com
Wed Apr 11 12:20:39 CEST 2007


<quote who="Garry">
> Peter Schober wrote:
>> * Garry <gkg at gmx.de> [2007-04-10 09:05]:
>>> on a customer box (with ~250 active users) we've noticed massive
>>> load on the LDAP server ... this box is pretty well equipped (dual
>>> Xeon = 4 cores, w/ 6GB memory), so the box performance itself
>>> shouldn't be much of a problem ... anyway, LDAP numbers are pretty
>>> disturbing at times ...
>>
>> note that slapd should hardly make *any* use of your CPUs (unless for
>> slapindex, which only needs to be run once after changing your indices
>> in slapd.conf) when properly configured (bdb backend, DB_CONFIG).
>
> Well, first results this morning with all the users "storming" the
> server as they usually do around 8AM resulted in EXTREME improvement in
> performance ... hardly any lag, system load stays nicely in the 0.5-0.8
> range, slapd hardly takes up any CPU (47 CPU seconds since restart last
> night ... normally, it took up 47 CPU seconds in something like 30
> seconds on the clock or less ...)
>
> So, thanks everybody who pointed out the real problem here ;)

What version? Still 2.2. and ldbm?

Did you just add better/more indexes then?

Gavin.

>
> -garry
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