--On Monday, June 05, 2006 7:02 AM -0400 Alex Karasulu
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Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
Hi,
I'm looking at apache DS as compared to OpenLDAP, and have an initial
set of questions:
(a) is it possible to bulk load an LDIF file while the server is
offline? If yes, how?
No there is no way to do this presently. What benefit to you get from
offline loads?
At least with OpenLDAP, doing an offline load with slapadd is substantially
faster than doing an ldapadd, if you are wanting to load a large database.
(b) If I choose to load an LDIF file via the server.xml file, is the
beginning and end of the load logged, so that a timing mark can be
drawn from it?
The file is marked as loaded. Any changes to the file will not
propagate into the DIT. To force the server to reload the ldif file you
just need to remove the entry for the loaded file under ou=loadedLdifs
(or something like that) under ou=configuration,ou=system.
I don't think you understand my question. I want to know how long it takes
Apache DS to load an LDIF file.
(c) How does one tune the underlying database?
Silly but all parameters are hardcoded right now. We will expose cache
parameters soon.
(d) Is there any way to tune an entry cache, etc, for Apache DS?
We need to expose this as well.
(e) When one specifies an index for an attribute, I see no way to
differentiate between equality, substring, presence, etc. If an
attribute is indexed, is it then simply indexed for all possible
search methods?
That is correct. ApacheDS does not support approximate matching which
defaults to equality match FYI.
Approximate matching is not the same thing as substring indexing.
(f) Are there any other general guidelines for tuning Apache DS?
Really many tunable parameters have not been exposuted. We'll try to
get some of these parameters out and in the hands of users in the next
release candidate.
Okay.
--Quanah
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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Developer
ITS/Shared Application Services
Stanford University
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