Re: [REPOST] Getting OpenLDAP on RedHat AS3 working properly

[Jens Vagelpohl <jens@dataflake.org>]

> I have tried all sorts of things to optimize OpenLDAP performance on 
> the
> default distrubtion included with RedHat AS3, but no matter what I do, 
> for
> some attributes indexing is quick and for others it's not.  A search 
> on uid,
> for example, returns results almost instantaneously.  On the other 
> hand, even
> a search for just the presence of a cn attribute takes several seconds 
> to
> return anything (uid presence is likity split).  The RedHat build uses 
> ldbm
> and apparently only, and I'm thinking that might be the problem being 
> that I
> can't seem to switch to bdb (is an unrecognized database type).  I'm
> presuming it's built with TLS/SSL, but I actually don't know that at 
> this
> point.

The consensus on the list is that the ancient versions shipping with RH 
(both ES 3 and RH 9) should not be used for production setups. Grab the 
latest stable source tarball from openldap.org and compile yurself. You 
will also need to build some needed packages like BerkeleyDB and maybe 
OpenSSL because the versions included are not compatible with what the 
latest OpenLDAP wants.

jens