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  Here thanks to Francesco Chicchiricco at Sourcesense are some tips and tricks 
for configuring LDAP to perform under load
  
   * compile latest openldap with berkleyDB in the core, not as module
-  * in slapd.conf, use a hash root password, not clear text (slappasswd -h)
-  * in slapd.conf, set 'sizelimit unlimited' to avoid problems while 
retrieving data; otherwise ldapsearch results are limited up to the specified 
limit or 500 by default
-  * in slapd.conf, set 'cachesize 5000' to speed up queries (up to 5000 
entries in memory, default 1000) - see 
http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/1075.html for general considerations on 
OpenLDAP caching
-  * in slapd.conf, set 'checkpoint 512 720': this is a BDB directive telling 
OpenLDAP to set transactional checkpoint  (writing of changed  data to disk) to 
occur when either 512 kilobytes of data have been written to the bdb subsystem 
or 720 minutes have passed since the last checkpoint; this setting was very 
very important importing 23 GB of data!
  
+ ==== In slapd.conf: ====
+ 
+  * use a hash root password, not clear text (slappasswd -h)
+  * set 'sizelimit unlimited' to avoid problems while retrieving data; 
otherwise ldapsearch results are limited up to the specified limit or 500 by 
default
+  * set 'cachesize 5000' to speed up queries (up to 5000 entries in memory, 
default 1000) - see http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/1075.html for 
general considerations on OpenLDAP caching
+  * set 'checkpoint 512 720': this is a BDB directive telling OpenLDAP to set 
transactional checkpoint  (writing of changed  data to disk) to occur when 
either 512 kilobytes of data have been written to the bdb subsystem or 720 
minutes have passed since the last checkpoint; this setting was very very 
important importing 23 GB of data!
+  * define database indexes for frequently issued queries
+ 
+ ==== in <DATA_DIR>/DB_CONFIG (BDB low-level config file): ====
+ 
+  * set 'set_cachesize   0       52428800        0': low-level equivalent to 
'cachesize 5000', but specific for BDB backend
+  * set 'set_flags       DB_TXN_NOSYNC': this flag tells the database not to 
immediately flush transaction buffers to disk
+ 
+ finally, start slapd without or with litte logging (-d switch).
+