Re: (ITS#3675) On Directory Server Performance Benchmarking

[hyc@symas.com]

I'm curious why you chose such an old release for this study. OpenLDAP 
2.0.23 was released in February 2002, with the final 2.0 release 
(2.0.27) in September 2002. There have been two whole release streams 
since then. Even the 2.1 release is now considered "Historic." As such, 
any lessons one might have gleaned from studying 2.0's performance 
characteristics were identified and addressed years ago. For example, we 
have benchmarks showing that OpenLDAP 2.1 is fully 200 times faster than 
2.0, with 2.2 30-50% faster even than 2.1.

kulkarni@cs.ucr.edu wrote:

>Full_Name: Dhananjay Kulkarni
>Version: 2.0.23
>OS: Mandrake Linux 7.0
>URL: http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~kulkarni/Dhananjay-Kulkarni-050421.pdf
>Submission from: (NULL) (24.180.55.253)
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>LDAP-based directory servers are being widely used in grid computing,
>directory-enabled networking and operating system support. Hence, benchmarking
>and analyzing the performance of a directory server is very crucial. In this
>paper, we analyze the performance of the openldap-2.0.23, which is an open
>source LDAP directory server available from the OpenLDAP Foundation. Our goal is
>to benchmark the server performance through a variety of experiments. We measure
>the throughput and the latency for LDAP queries using a stress test, where the
>server is heavily loaded by a number clients simultaneously accessing the
>service. In other experiments, we focus on analyzing the update performance and
>the effect of indexing on the performance of LDAP queries. Finally, we study and
>analyze our experimental results. Our benchmark shows that that the directory
>gets saturated around 100 simultaneous accesses and indexing/caching can affect
>the latency by an order of magnitude. We posit that our results provide
>interesting insights into identifying system bottlenecks and tuning the server
>performance. Moreover, our results can be used as a guide while developing
>future directory server implementations.
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