Re: slapadd, 1 million entries, some NEW numbers

[Andreas <andreas@conectiva.com.br>]

On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 01:58:41PM -0400, pll+ldap@lanminds.com wrote:
> Ahhm, not to be really nitpicky here, but 'dual' usually means 2, not 4.
> Are you using a dual P4 or a Quad P4 :)

It's a dual P4 HT, that means it has Hyper Threading enabled, so, for
example, /proc/cpuinfo shows 4 CPUs.

> Another performance tweak might be to add a separate SCSI bus and 
> hang a the log disk off that bus.  To go even further, you could get 
> 3+ drives and use something like RAID 3 or RAID 1 which should 
> enhance write performance.  Of course, I don't expect these changes 
> to have any major impact.

Well, I wanted to have a figure here and spot any obvious mistakes I
might have made. SCSI definitely improves performance and is a must
for big deployments.