Re: SUMMARY: Re: cachesize does not exceed 1000 entries

[Sameer N Ingole <strike@proscrutiny.com>]

Robert Petkus wrote:

> Folks,
> I finally found the problem after much frustration --> Solaris.  Once 
> I tried the same query on Linux and was able to retrieve >1000 entries 
> I figured the problem was with the ldap client on Solaris.
> Looking in the logs, Solaris was using paged results from back-bdb.  
> When doing an ldap query that consults nss_ldap such as "finger", 
> libsldap.so is hard-coded with a LISTPAGESIZE of 1000 (see 
> http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/usr/src/lib/libsldap/common/ns_internal.h).  
> I grabbed source for libldap from openSolaris.org, increased the 
> pagesize limit, and hacked it so it would work on Solaris 9 and lo and 
> behold it worked -- I was able to to retrieve >1000 entries.
>
> However, I didn't feel comfortable putting my hacked libraries on 
> production Solaris servers so I stripped all the pagedresults controls 
> from back-bdb/search.c and this worked, too, with default Solaris.
> This is how I'm going to leave the system for now.
> Is it possible to request greater freedom over these controls (e.g., 
> pagedresults) in a future version of openldap?

Yes, file an ITS. Request feature. Refer to Openldap web site.
http://www.openldap.org/its/

Regards,

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Sameer N. Ingole
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