Re: increased performance

[Aaron Anderson <aaron@echostar.ca>]

what does the index option 'pres' mean?  Can't figure that one out.  I've
implemented most of your suggestions.  There wasn't a performance problem
persay, I was simply thinking of ways to increase the performance further
and the ramdrive idea came to mind.

thanks for you help.

Aaron

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Wright" <ichbin@shadlen.org>
To: "Aaron Anderson" <aaron@echostar.ca>
Cc: <openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org>
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 11:32 PM
Subject: Re: increased performance


>
> You have a ~100 entry database and you have performance problems?! I
> think there must be something very basic you have forgotten to do.
> Here's a checklist:
>
> 1) index eq,pres on all common search keys -- this should reduce slapd
> CPU consumption;
> 2) set cachesize larger than your total number of attributes, and
> dbcachesize larger than the total size of /var/lib/ldap in bytes (on a
> large system, this might require buying more RAM) -- this should reduce
> disk accesses;
> 3) loglevel 0 (or, if you must, loglevel 256  and use - in syslogd.conf)
> -- so logging won't slow you down;
> 4) run nscd on your clients -- greatly reduces frequency of lookups;
> 5) tune your ide disk with hdparam, or use scsi disks
>
> Once you have done all these things, I would be very suprised if you
> still have problems. But if you do, I doubt moving to a ramdisk will
> help. Writes to disk under Linux are asynchronous by default, and reads
> will most often be from slapd's in-memory cache.
>
>