Re: OpenLDAP Scaling

[Brian Zuromski <bzuromski@gmail.com>]

Howard great thanks!!  32 or 64 bit OS?  Can you share the tuning you made to get the results?

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:26 AM, Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com> wrote:

Brian Zuromski wrote:

HI,

I'm trying to scale out a openldap server deployment to serve around
100K users.  I plan on having a master server and using syncrepl to
create slaves that sit behind a load-balancer.  Is there a good rule of
thumb to abide by when creating a scenario like this?  How many
authentications/sec can a server typically handle?  I've seen the
benchmark comparisons
(http://www.usenix.org/event/lisa07/htgr_files/chu.pdf) that have been
posted by Howard, but it doesn't say what the system specs were that the
tests were performed on?  I will have pretty beefy systems to use (lots
of RAM and CPU)...

The test showing ~35,000 auths/second on 100Mbit ethernet was done using a Celestica A8440 with 4 Opteron 875s. The test was network-limited, the CPUs were pretty idle. The machine had 16GB of RAM.

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