i guess i wasn’t clear in my question - i am not seeing a problem with paged 
results.  and i think you answered my question.  with paged results one should 
be able to perform a query with large result sets and not have large memory 
concerns, right?  this would be the answer i am looking for.

/mrg

On Feb 14, 2014, at 4:13 PM, Rich Megginson <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 02/14/2014 02:04 PM, Michael Gettes wrote:
>> I did some searching to try and answer the following question and the answer 
>> is not apparent to me.
>> 
>> I have a directory with hundreds of thousands of entries.  I have an app 
>> which, due to its behavior, needs to
>> be able to search for very large sets of users but I don’t want it to be 
>> able to get ALL users and therefore exhaust
>> all memory on the ldap server.
>> 
>> If the app performs a search on uid=* and the it’s a paged search, does this 
>> have a positive impact on how
>> memory is used to handle the results so it doesn’t exhaust all memory?
>> 
>> I’m trying to keep the scenario simple so I hope you appreciate the question 
>> I am getting at.
> 
> The primary reason for using paged results on the server side is to allow you 
> to perform searches which otherwise would have hit the lookthrough limit, and 
> caused high CPU spikes.  It should also reduce memory usage, although I'm not 
> sure why it should exhaust memory in the first place.  Are you seeing the 
> directory server run out of memory with these types of searches?
> 
>> 
>> thanks!
>> 
>> /mrg
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