Ive found that even using slapadd's 'quick' flag it can still take 4 hours to import an LDIF, and if I can rely on this procedure to rebuild an LDAP read server in a crisis, I'd like to continue using it.
This would generally indicate that you've failed to properly tune DB_CONFIG.
--Quanah
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