RE: multiple attribute search with single return slowness

[Craig White <craigwhite@azapple.com>]

On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 01:18, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> --On Tuesday, April 27, 2004 3:28 PM +0900 Blomberg David 
> <dblomber@Libertec.com> wrote:
> 
> > I read and put in the cachesize as it was missing but saw no speed up, so
> > I re-read the man page again and noticed a second "dbcachesize" I set
> > these under the database portion of the slapd.conf and my speed went up
> > by 2500% (I am not kidding I do 500 message lookups now in what I could
> > only do 20 messages in the same amount of time before)  I have seen it in
> > the man page a ton of times but I was trusting Red Hat to stick to the
> > defaults (stupid me-this is the 4th major problem I have had on Red Hat
> > ES 3.0)  Anyway thank You for the help its perfect now.
> 
> Don't trust RedHat do do anything. ;)
> 
> dbcachesize is a ldbm specific command, and is similar to having things set 
> up correctly for the DB_CONFIG file in bdb.  As noted previously, ldbm is 
> generally considered to be deprecated, so you probably want to investigate 
> using a more modern database backend (and more modern version of openldap 
> than Redhat ships with).
---
I read this and understand the point but it's simply not worth the
effort for the 30 user network that I am using it for. It seems odd that
they should still be supplying 2.0.27 with RH AS 3 (2.1.22 on FC-1) but
I have absolutely no inclination to fight that fight to get reasonably
up to date openldap installed on that network.

Craig