Re: free/non-free ladp servers comparizon

[Cliff Friedel <cliff@wrkcs.net>]

On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, David Obadia wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 07:44:41PM +0800, Kalman KK Wan wrote:
> > Sizing up LDAP servers
> > http://www.nwfusion.com/reviews/2000/0515rev2.html
> 
> http://www.nwfusion.com/reviews/2000/0515rev2.html?nf#numbers
> 
> The performance rates for OpenLDAP compared to Active Directory Server are not
> even close: How objective are this tests?
> 
> Search Rate test with one client (Operation/sec):
> Open LDAP on Linux           => 4.5
> Active Directory on Win 2000 => 999
> 

I can tell you for a fact that we are seeing higher results than that with
no caching.  We are running an ISP and using LDAP for authentication
(using OpenLDAP) and are seeing 5-10 connections a second (at least
accoring to the logs).  I really expect seeing even more than that.  As
for AD, I really would like to see that.  I find it hard to believe a
company like Novell, for example, would use OpenLDAP in its deployment of
Netware 5.1 if AD was 200 times faster.  I think the tests were bought and
paid for by the Gates Collective.

> I'd like to see the tools they've used to make this tests!
> 
> There is probably caching or something, that completely fake the result...
> 
> Does anyone have a better explanation?
> 
> Regards,
> 
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