Re: OpenLdap search does not return all result set

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

matthew sporleder wrote:
> On 7/19/07, Srilakshmanan, Kumuthiny
> <Kumuthiny.Srilakshmanan@auspost.com.au> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> >   I have a OpenLDAP version 2.2 on ldbm database under unix with 2500 users.
> > I'm aware upgrading is an option but it is not clear whether it would
> > resolve my issue as stated below.

> Well, if your searches are taking longer than sixty seconds, or you
> expect them to return more than ten thousand records, then things are
> okay.  However, you're probably asking for help because that is not
> the case.  :)
>
> Please try to reproduce this problem with some level of debugging to
> see if, possibly, you're running into an err=80 (this will show up
> even in 256 logging), a bug where your database slows way down after
> some set number of queries (I had this problem with ldbm), or
> something a little less obvious.

There is no point in trying to reproduce this problem as-is. OpenLDAP 2.2 is 
obsolete and back-ldbm is known to spontaneously corrupt its indexes. Update to 
OpenLDAP 2.3/bdb, period.

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