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Re: [ldap] Implementation Suggestions



On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:



--On Friday, January 20, 2006 2:43 PM -0500 matthew sporleder <msporleder@gmail.com> wrote:

>> 1. Separate directory from account data . . . perhaps using refers of
>> some sort to "make it look" like they're all one server/service.
>> Directory stuff is by far the most intensely searched, updated, and
>> involves "unusual" queries instead of a simple "give me this one
>> entry,
>> thanks".

Splitting up your DIT can give some performance improvements if you have separate storage for each part. back-meta may also give you some flexibility options. You may also want to review your indexing options.

This may or may not be a performance improvement, it depends again what you are doing.


>>
>> 2. Is Solaris causing too much of a bottleneck I/O wise?  It seems
>> to  be
>> notorious for having slower I/O than Linux, so I'm wondering if
>> that's
>> part of my problem.  This is Solaris 8 btw.
>>

Solaris 9 started huge updates to the disk system and Solaris 10 keeps it going. (Although they were always faster than linux, in my opinion) Upgrading to Solaris 10 will give you a boost for free.

If you want to stick with solaris 8, there are a lot of articles out
there about tuning solaris disks with fsflushr-related settings.  Look
at docs.sun.com for solaris 8 /etc/system tunables.  Even if you
upgrade, you should look into your OS tunables for such an I/O-intense
service as ldap.

On a SPARC CPU, I've never seen Solaris 8 or 9 come close to touching the performance of Linux on an x86 cpu. I doubt Solaris 10 would be any better. Now, if you are talking Solaris x86, that's a different story, and I've never tested it vs. linux.

Have you tried new sparc processors (T[12]000 line)? I'd be curious to see they compare against the top x86 processors.


In my opinion Solaris (x86 and Sparc) 10 is a major improvement over previous solaris releases by a long shot. Solaris x86 is rock solid and at minimum as fast as linux in my testing on the same hardware.

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Igor