Re: >1024 connections in slapd / select->poll

["David Boreham" <david_list@boreham.org>]

> We're talking about huge systems here. And my feeling here is that any OS 
> on a
> SMP machine is better at spreading the load across CPUs the better the more
> separated the different acting parties are. This is especially important 
> for
> things like cache locality. Threads share memory, and with a NUMA 
> architecture
> this puts an upper limit on scalability.

Designing an application with N processes
_sharing_ memory seems contrary to your goal here though, no ?

Why not just run N copies of the server, each with its own
data, on your NUMA machine, and replicate between them ?

Anyway, I'd really like to hear about the application that needs
1000's of open LDAP connections. I've never seen
one of those (except test programs).

Such an application it might be better served (sic)
by using connectionless LDAP.